[Proposal ] Name of Python's port

[js]

So, now that we have py25-* and even py30-* ports,
let's do something about it.
Renaming py-* t- py24-*. could be done in a simple perl regex like this

$ find dports \! -path '*.svn*' -type f -print0 | xargs -0 perl -i -pe
's/py-/py24-/g'

It might be better to leave py-* ports without any changes for a while to avoid
confusion.

Any comments?

On Feb 3, 2008 8:41 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
> 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-*.
>
>