On Dec 7, 2006, at 03:51, Luc Heinrich wrote:
Greetings,As of today, the Python 2.5 port is an island. It has the correct dependencies and builds correctly, but it also has some major problems which makes it mostly useless:1. The Python framework is not created (--enable-framework is not specified in the configure args).2. The 'python' symlink to 'python2.5' is not created.3. All MacPorts python libraries and applications depend on port:python24 or are part of portgroup:python24.Is there a specific reason for (1) and (2) or is this just an overlook ?More importantly, is there a way to workaround (3) and use MacPorts- managed python libraries and applications with port:python25 instead of port:python24 ? A way to ignore dependencies maybe ? (which wouldn't completely work for all ports though, the python variant of port:boost uses a hardcoded python version variable for example)
I'd like to propose:- The 'python' port group, which requires python2.3, be renamed to 'python23'. The one port that uses it (trac) can be updated.
- A new port group be created for python2.5 (named 'python')
- Existing ports referencing 'python24' are updated, as they are
tested, to reference the new 'python' port group.
- In the future, the 'python' port group will remain pointing at the
latest stable Python.
I expect that most ports work fine with python 2.5 -- it may be appropriate to do a mass change instead of testing individually.
Thoughts? I want to use Python 2.5! =) -landonf
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