[Proposal ] Name of Python's port

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 1, 2008, at 23:45, js wrote:

> port search python shows me that every python2.5 port has prefix
> "py25" but that of 2.4 is only "py".
> If MacPorts would consider python2.4 is recommended python (due to
> some known problem)
> and called python2.4 port just "python", that would make sense, but
> ,unfortunately, it's not so.
> So IMHO using py24 prefix for 2.4 port would be more intuitive.
>
> What do you think of this?
> I' like to hear some comments on this and
> as a long-term goal, it would be nice to have a portnaming guildeline
> for python (or ALl ports across MacPorts project)

The guideline is: use a numbered prefix if there's a good reason to.  
A prefix was not used for the python 2.4 ports because there was no  
python 2.5 at the time. Now there is, and I think it was just deemed  
too much of a hassle to rename all the py-* ports to py24-*.