Re: [Fink-devel] EOL for python24 and perl586

2009-08-22 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink developers, This has finally been implemented, and all -py24 and -pm586 packages should have now been tagged to restrict their Distribution to 10.4 and 10.5. Package maintainers should check to see if their packages were updated, and verify the correctness of the update. Thank

[Fink-devel] EOL for python24 and perl586

2009-03-17 Thread Daniel Macks
Fink has long supplied multiple versions of major languages, and even "older than OS X supplies" ones to ease migration from older OS X versions. However, keeping "very old" versions around forever is a maintenance/testing pain, and newer versions of various modules for the languages may not work a