Python 2.5 and py-crypto...

[Randall Wood]

On 21 Feb 2007, at 20:43, Landon Fuller wrote:

>
> On Feb 21, 2007, at 15:43, Weissmann Markus wrote:
>
>> Hi Douglas,
>>
>> the soon-to-be-released version 1.4 of port will come with a  
>> python 2.5 "port group". This will allow us to quickly produce all  
>> the python vastness for python 2.5, too.
>> This might be a chance for newcomers to start coding Portfiles:  
>> Basically you will have to replace the "GroupCode" line and the  
>> name from the python 2.4 module Portfile to get a Python 2.5 one.  
>> People with the release candidate of 1.4 installed can already  
>> hack away here (just don't put that code into the repository yet -  
>> as long as 1.4 is not released)
>
> I'm nonplussed by the massive code duplication that will occur for  
> py25 portfiles -- these will almost invariably be direct copies of  
> the py24 portfiles.
> I'm not sure of the best solution -- perhaps python portgroup can  
> either point to 24 or 25?
>
I'm  nonplussed (even upset) about broken python applications because  
suddenly some py-* ports (read py-wxPython (there may be others--I  
just don't know)) depend on python25 while other py-* ports depend on  
python24.

The Fink developers hashed out this problem a few years back with  
perl version 5.6 / 5.8 problems and concluded that the only road  
forward was package duplication. I say duplicate the ports!

Although perhaps if we could create a Portfile.in type or style of  
port that really generates multiple installable ports, we'd have an  
easy solution...

Randall Wood
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