"Lite" vs. "Full" Python Ports

[C. Florian Ebeling]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
> On Apr 11, 2009, at 15:15, Julio Biason wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Rainer Müller wrote:
>>>>
>>>> As a Python user of MacPorts, I'd prefer that those were variants.
>>>>
>>>> sudo port install python26 +ssl +tk +...
>>>
>>> Which would mean you would have to rebuild the whole python port
>>> unnecessarily just to add another module.
>>
>> I know. It just sounds a better way to get things into Python than
>> trying to find some py25-module in the plethora of py25-modules that
>> exist in MacPorts right now.
>>
>> But, then again, it's just my opinion.
>
> They modules aren't that hard to find, are they?
>
> $ port echo py25*ssl*
> py25-openssl
> py25-socket-ssl
> $ port echo py25*tk*
> py25-gtk
> py25-gtkglext
> py25-nltk
> py25-pygtksourceview
> py25-tkinter

This thread is no bad place to put another plug for my section
pages suggestion. Mentioning the ports which contain the
core modules in different python versions sounds like something
most people would otherwise have trouble finding out.


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