Restructuring Python ports?

[Akira Kitada]

Hi Bryan,

> Like python26 does now?  The advantage is of course that it works as some
> who expect it to work like the system python, or the official one you
> download from python.org.  The disadvantage is that it is heavier on
> dependencies, adding the following to what python25 needs: zlib, openssl,
> sqlite3, db46, gdbm, tcl, tk, and X11 (because of tk).

And it might be convenient to be able to update each dependent port
independently,
but I'm not sure we would really want to update each of them that way.

As always, we could probably learn some ideas from our senior project,
FreeBSD Ports.
Here is the patch-setup.py from FreeBSD's. [1]

    # This global variable is used to hold the list of modules to be disabled.
    -disabled_module_list = []
    +disabled_module_list = ["_bsddb", "_sqlite3", "_tkinter", "gdbm", "mpz"]

To me, it looks moderate and more pragmatic configuration than
MacPorts's, where it disables:

    # This global variable is used to hold the list of modules to be disabled.
    -disabled_module_list = []
    +disabled_module_list =
["zlib","_hashlib","_ssl","_bsddb","_sqlite3","_tkinter","bz2","gdbm","readline","_curses","_curses_panel"]


(By the way, I must confess I didn't know python26 changed the way how
it's built *again*.
I worry it would bring some more confusions to python ports.)

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/lang/python25/files/patch-setup.py

> If we're not sure just yet which is preferred, do note that I haven't heard
> anything personally that python26 brings in too many dependencies, nor have
> any tickets been filed.  Of course 2.6 is still pretty new, and doesn't yet
> have the module support the older versions do.

I would like to go in the middle.

Regards,

> Bryan
>
>
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