[66590] trunk/dports/devel

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 17, 2010, at 17:12, Thomas Keller wrote:
> Am 18.04.10 00:04, schrieb Rainer Müller:
>> But I would encourage to use some
>> more recent version of python. I would choose ${prefix}/bin/python2.6
>> and py26-gtk2.
> 
> This is something where I don't know the MP policy - upstream tells me
> that it needs a Python >= 2.4, so 2.4 is enough. So people which already
> have 2.4 don't need to install another (newer) python version, but can
> just run it. Of course this goes wrong if the policy is "always the
> newest stuff" and its expected that most people already have 2.6.

We would want to phase out older versions eventually. The sooner we can get ports that use python 2.4 and 2.5 parts to upgrade to 2.6 the better.

> I initially tried it with 2.6, but due to some weird dependencies (even
> though I already had python26 and I installed with -n) it tried to
> download / compile gcc-4.5 and I stopped that complete waste of time.

Not sure what happened there. gcc45 @4.5.0_0 was just made available, and no ports depend on it.