"Lite" vs. "Full" Python Ports
Rainer Müller
raimue at macports.org
Mon Apr 13 08:44:33 PDT 2009
Arthur Koziel wrote:
> Here's how I thought of it (using hashlib as an example):
>
> Once the python25 port is updated, the hashlib module will be located
> one level
> above the "site-packages" directory. So, all "import hashlib"
> statements would
> result in importing the hashlib module installed by python25, not the
> one installed
> by py25-hashlib.
>
> There would still be ports depending on py25-hashlib but they would
> work fine.
> We could remove the dependency on py25-hashlib from other ports one by
> one
> and then finally remove py25-hashlib.
>
> Is this correct, or do I miss something obvious here?
I didn't know the integrated module would be installed into another
directory. If python25 and py25-* would not conflict on any files, this
will work.
Rainer
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