python_select dependents

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Mon Jul 5 03:34:59 PDT 2010


On 07/05/2010 11:46 AM, Emmanuel Hainry wrote:
> Which means? When you install python_select and no python, the symlink
> goes to the system's python.

Which would be against our policy that we are using our own libs and do
not rely on the system.

For example, are you sure your script still works with python 3.x if the
user selected this?

>> Please change this dependency to one of the pythonXY ports and use
>> configure flags or add a patch to use ${prefix}/bin/pythonX.Y instead.
> 
> The only sensible dependency scheme would be bin:python:python24. How
> can I do that?

Another possibility would be to add +pythonXY variants for each
available python version.

Rainer


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