[Proposal ] Name of Python's port

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 4, 2008, at 12:07, Emmanuel Hainry wrote:

> 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.

Not dozens: 336.

> 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...

This was debated before and it was decided by those who understand  
python that separate ports made more sense. I believe part of the  
reason was that you might want to have both python-24- and python-25- 
versions of a given port installed.