[Proposal ] Name of Python's port

[js]

Just as you said, it might not so easy to fix things all now,
but I think changes for better are a good thing and worth the effort.
Everyone love to see consistent system layout, right?
And having a beautiful system forces the system to remain same, I think.

On Feb 4, 2008 1:10 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2008, at 18:06, skip at pobox.com wrote:
>
> >     js> So IMHO using py24 prefix for 2.4 port would be more
> > intuitive.
> >
> >     js> What do you think of this?
> >
> > +1.  In fact, with Python 2.6 and 3.0 on the way I suspect it would
> > be best
> > to add version numbers to all versions of Python for awhile.
>
> It has already been established that python 2.5 ports shall have the
> py25 prefix and python 3.0 ports shall have the py30 prefix. If
> there's a python 2.6 version coming, then these should use the py26
> prefix. Python 2.4 ports use the py prefix because we had not
> established the rules at that time and it is a major hassle to change
> this now. There are a handful of ports that depend on python 2.3, but
> none of them are in the python category, so none of them have a py
> prefix. There are ports for python 2.2 and python 2.1 but I don't see
> any ports that depend on those.