Supported python versions

Eric Le Lay elelay at macports.org
Sat Oct 23 01:45:57 PDT 2010


Le 14/10/10 12:36, Rainer Müller a écrit :
> On 2010-10-13 22:06 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>>>> Are we ready to make the jump from python26 to python27 for all of macports?
for once, gramps is untested with python27 AFAICT
>>> I suppose not, but it looked good (pygtk, and many others where already there).
>>> Maybe it's too early to make it default, would you advise to revert it ?
>> I think we prefer to have a uniform movement unless upstream indicates their package should primarily use a newer version. Any input, Ryan/JMR/Rainer?
> We don't have a documented blessed version of python to be used as
> default. I think it just happened that maintainers settled on python26
> without discussion.
>
> What makes python27 better than python26? Can we expect full compatibility?
> Rainer
I didn't research that, but I agree setting a default of python should 
be concerted.
default variants are back to python 2.6 for now.

Best regards,
Eric



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