Restructuring Python ports?
Joshua Root
jmr at macports.org
Fri Jan 2 18:56:57 PST 2009
Akira Kitada wrote:
> 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.
Note that IDLE doesn't work without tkinter...
- Josh
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