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. Thanks, Dave On Mar 17, 2009, at 4:33 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: > 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 at all with older verisons of the > languages. OS X 10.5 comes with python 2.5 and perl 5.8.8, so we are > planning to EOL python < 2.5 and perl < 5.8.8 as of OS X 10.5 and only > carry python >= 2.5 and perl >= 5.8.8 into whatever comes after 10.5. > > Maintainers of python- or perl-using script packages should update to > using one of the modern versions: python 2.5 and 2.6 and perl 5.8.8 > and 5.10.0 are available on 10.4 and 10.5 so you can keep the same > .info for all distributions. All -py24 and -pm586 module packages will > soon be tagged for the 10.4 and 10.5 distributions only (-py23 and > -pm<586 are already restricted to 10.4). > > Note that in general, one does not need to tag Distribution or > Architecture of a .info, as these fields default to "any and all". May > as well assume it works everywhere unless you know it does not or > cannot, rather than blocking actual testing on systems that have not > been tried. > > dan > > -- > Daniel Macks > [email protected] > http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) > are > powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly > and > easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based > development > software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. > Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com > _______________________________________________ > Fink-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
