[MacPorts] #32306: glib2, glib2-devel: build fails when "python" is not 2.5 thru 2.7

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#32306: glib2, glib2-devel: build fails when "python" is not 2.5 thru 2.7
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 Reporter:  gotyaoi@…            |       Owner:  ryandesign@…           
     Type:  defect               |      Status:  assigned               
 Priority:  Normal               |   Milestone:                         
Component:  ports                |     Version:  2.0.3                  
 Keywords:                       |        Port:  glib2, glib2-devel     
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Comment(by ryandesign@…):

 Replying to [comment:3 gale@…]:
 > I am stuck on this one too.

 You shouldn't be stuck on anything. The workaround is to use "sudo port
 select python" to select a version of python between 2.5 and 2.7. After
 glib2 is installed, you can re-select whatever other version of python you
 usually prefer.

 > So this particular error is easy to fix. But I'm
 > not sure how easy it would be to go through
 > the python code in glib2 ourselves and ensure
 > that it is all compatible with Python 3.
 > That's a job for upstream.

 Right. I have no interest in learning python nor in fixing glib2's code
 for them.

 > The real issue is that since this port does still
 > require Python 2 only, we need to make sure
 > that is what it uses.

 Right, that is what I want to do.

 > (And we need a dependency
 > to make sure that we actually have an appropriate
 > version of Python around somewhere.)

 In the spirit of the discussion [http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail
 /macports-dev/2011-August/015719.html A Plea to Reduce Dependences] I
 would like to avoid adding a python dependency unless absolutely necessary
 (i.e. on Tiger), since, as you rightly say, "glib2 is a direct or indirect
 dependency for many, many ports" and I don't want to force everyone to
 have a python port installed that they might not otherwise need.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/32306#comment:5>
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