/opt/local/bin/python2.5 as default MacPorts' "python" interpreter

[Randall Wood]

A number of portfiles also just set the configure.env variable PYTHON=$ 
{prefix}/bin/python2.5

Is there any reason this can not be made part of the default  
environment for port?

On 18 Jan 2008, at 04:34, Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Guido Soranzio wrote:
>
>> Currently there is no official "python" interpreter for MacPorts
>> (in the past there was a link to python2.3 even when python24
>> was installed, IIRC) but many Python programs (or their shebang  
>> lines)
>> expect a "python" command in the PATH, otherwise Leopard's python2.5
>> is picked from its symbolic link "/usr/bin/python" and they don't  
>> work
>> correctly.
>
> Or Tiger's python2.3 is picked, and it works even less correctly...
> (or alternatively python2.5, from python.org and /usr/local/bin)
>
>> This is the case, for example, of Sudoku and Chess in gnome-games.
>
> And a lot of other ports have been patched, to avoid any use of the
> "python" command directly (this has been something of a pain to do)
>
>> I think that, similarly to the destroot phase of Tcl
>>
>> (ln -s ${prefix}/bin/tclsh8.5 ${destroot}${prefix}/bin/tclsh)
>>
>> an "/opt/local/bin/python" link should be created pointing to
>> the 2.5 version, as MacPorts' "default" Python version.
>
> The /opt/local/bin/python was leading to "python24", which was
> the default MacPorts Python version. The decision was made to
> move to python_select instead, and not have any default at all.
>
> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2007-August/002547.html
>
> So currently the initial setup with python_select(8) is mandatory...
> But I think it was a mistake to remove the default python version,
> and we should probably upgrade python to 2.5 - and perl to 5.10 ?
>
> --anders
>
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