[Proposal ] Name of Python's port

[Emmanuel Hainry]

Citando 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.
> 

As python2.5 should be the stable version and python2.4 slowly
disappear, I feel renaming dozens of ports is just not worth it. The
future is bright but there is no python<2.5 in it. And in fact,
obtaining a beautiful python modules tree would mean having one port per
package that builds conveniently for each installed python, not having
py24-blabla, py25-blabla, py26-blabla and py30-blabla that are identical
but a few characters...


> 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.
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