scapy + py26-scapy

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Mon May 9 03:27:22 PDT 2011


On May 9, 2011, at 03:40, Joshua Root wrote:

> Why do we have 'scapy' (which uses python25) and also 'py26-scapy'? It
> looks like Scapy is an application that happens to use python, so there
> should only be one port (possibly with variants to select a python
> version if there's a good reason to want to change.)
> 
> The py25-foo, py26-foo etc. naming convention should be used for ports
> that install a python module that will be used by other things,
> potentially using different python versions.

Sounds right to me. Mark py26-scapy as replaced_by scapy, update scapy to 2.2.0 and use python27 or provide python variants if necessary.

See also:

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/24425

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/PortfileRecipes#replaced-by




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