[MacPorts] #14342: python25 drops modules by default, but python25 doesn't

[Markus Weissmann]

On 18 Feb 2008, at 17:27, Rainer Müller wrote:

> js wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, could you tell me why default python25 drops
>> those modoles?
>
> I really don't know it, Markus will know more about it.
>

does not compute: "python25 drops but python25 doesn't" --  
contradiction detected. ;)

If the question was why python25 does not build all auxiliary modules  
[1] like _sqlite3 etc.: For people who don't need e.g. tk-support,  
building all those dependencies is unnecessary.
We had this discussion of which modules would be cool to include by  
default and which not to already. Conclusion was that either we rename  
python25 to python25-core and make a "virtual" port python25 that  
requires all modules+python25-core OR to make a python25-all (or  
whatever) port that collects all "cool" modules by dependency. The  
former sucks because we would need to change a lot of dependencies and  
the latter never made it into the repository because nobody cared  
enough. If someone is keen on getting the former to work: Please fix  
all dependencies!!! (And please also make this consistent for 2.4 and  
3.0)


Regards,

-Markus


[1] http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/wiki/FAQ#WhycantIimportfooinPython2.5

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