The Python 2.5 port island

[Luc Heinrich]

Greetings,

As of today, the Python 2.5 port is an island. It has the correct  
dependencies and builds correctly, but it also has some major  
problems which makes it mostly useless:

1. The Python framework is not created (--enable-framework is not  
specified in the configure args).
2. The 'python' symlink to 'python2.5' is not created.
3. All MacPorts python libraries and applications depend on  
port:python24 or are part of portgroup:python24.

Is there a specific reason for (1) and (2) or is this just an overlook ?

More importantly, is there a way to workaround (3) and use MacPorts- 
managed python libraries and applications with port:python25 instead  
of port:python24 ? A way to ignore dependencies maybe ? (which  
wouldn't completely work for all ports though, the python variant of  
port:boost uses a hardcoded python version variable for example)

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Luc Heinrich - luc at honk-honk.com - http://www.honk-honk.com