Unifying Python Ports

[Blair Zajac]

On Aug 11, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Joshua Root wrote:

> On 2011-8-12 03:51 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>> As we unify python packages, will things depending on python2.4 packages 
>> need the dependency name changed?
>> * py-some_py -> py24-some_py
>> * py-some_py -> py${python.version}-some_py
>> 
>> Otherwise, depending on py-some_py will go to the python.default_version
>> for the package, which is likely the py27 subport.
> 
> Yes, dependents should be be updated. But you shouldn't be changing the
> default version where there was a pre-existing python24 version. The
> default is 24 precisely for backward compatibility.

Is there a search that you can do like this:

port list maintainer:blair (something that finds all dependents matching py-*)

Blair