Restructuring Python ports?

[Akira Kitada]

I prefer the way how python26 is built now to python25's, mostly
because it eliminated the need to specify
"depends_lib-append port:py25-hashlib port:py25-zlib" again and again...

I'm so happy with it and really hate the way it was in python25,
and that's why I wanted it to be propagated to other versions of python,
even it breaks the existing ports. (To me they are already broken in
different way)

I think it's safe to drop "bsddb", "sqlite3", "tkinter" and  "gdbm",
just as in FreeBSD Port system, though.

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Marcus Calhoun-Lopez
<mcalhoun at macports.org> wrote:
> Akira Kitada <akitada at ...> writes:
>
>> So it's going to remain the same: all-in-one python26 port and other
>> sliced python ports.
>> No intentional breakages are introduced.
>
> For what it's worth, I was a proponent of getting rid of
> disabled_module_list in python26 (http://trac.macports.org/changeset/42841).
> Most importantly, disabled_module_list precludes an exact replication of
> a full install (http://trac.macports.org/ticket/12369).
> It also makes maintenance easier.
>
> Having python ports be "dependency heavy" does not strike me as
> overly burdensome.
> Python does a lot of useful things, and it seems right and good that
> it require many dependencies to help it achieve its goals.
>
>> Bryan declined this by saying "for 3.0 i'll definitely contact mww;
>> but for 2.4/2.5 i'm not sure of the breakage that will happen".
>
> A few days ago, I proposed getting rid of disabled_module_list in python30
> (http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17796).
>
> -Marcus
>
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