Port for python26: batteries not included (or available)?

[Rainer Müller]

Brett Hoerner wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Brett Hoerner <bretthoerner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It seems that the Port for python26 doesn't include many of the
>> batteries that come with python, nor are there ports to install them
>> by hand.  [snip]
> 
> Ah, I found the following in
> /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/lang/python26/files/patch-setup.py.diff
> 
> -disabled_module_list = []
> +disabled_module_list =
> ["zlib","_hashlib","_ssl","_bsddb","_sqlite3","_tkinter","bz2","gdbm","readline","_curses","_curses_panel"]
> 
> Although I don't understand it's purpose.  The same is being done on
> Python25, although as I noted the packages are at least offered by
> other ports.
> 
> Any ideas?

It's just too early to request py26-* ports. There is a pending patch
from jmr to unify the python module ports and reduce the mess we created
with py-* and py25-*.

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16723

Before we go on creating py26-* ports this patch should be considered.

Rainer