How to discontinue ports completely (py26 deprecation) ...

Lawrence Velázquez larryv at macports.org
Wed Aug 10 15:02:46 PDT 2016


On Aug 10, 2016, at 2:18 PM, Peter Danecek <peter.danecek at ingv.it> wrote:

> In the process of deprecating `py26` subports, I am just looking at
> some very old python packages which were never moved to Python 2.7. It
> seems that in most cases there is a "good reason" why this did not
> occur. They are just not used anymore.
> 
> Some of these packages are deprecated explicitly upstream in favour of
> substitutes. Sometimes the homepage or the sources can not be found
> found, or are extremely outdated. So rather than just keeping them
> alive in Macports (by moving them to Python 2.7 even if they build),
> I would propose to remove them completely.

What ports are these?

vq


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