Python port best-practice?

[Joshua Root]

On 2018-4-27 01:07 , Renee Otten wrote:
> I am looking at updating some (nonmaintained) python ports and have two questions for now:
> 
> 1. if a project releases both on GitHub and PyPI is there a preference for using one over the other in Portfiles?

Not really. I would tend towards PyPI just because it makes the code a
little more straightforward. Livecheck and so on should work fine with
either though.

> 2. is there a MacPorts policy regarding subports (e.g., add subports for all Python versions that have not reached their end-of-life, provided of course that the package works on all of them)?

No formal policy, but the intersection of what the module works with and
what is not EOL is reasonable.

- Josh