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

[Landon Fuller]

On Oct 5, 2008, at 7:03 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Oct 5, 2008, at 14:18, Landon Fuller wrote:
>
>> On Oct 4, 2008, at 7:35 AM, Rainer Müller wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Won't the use of variants to select between 2.4, 2.5, and 3.0 in the
>> same port result in an inability to install the same Python module  
>> for
>> more than one version of Python?
>
> The description of the above ticket says:
>
> "Here is a portgroup that should be able to replace the current  
> python25 and python24 groups, and can install for any combination of  
> the available python versions at once via variants."
>
> So it sounds like e.g. the +python24 and +python25 variants would  
> not conflict with one another, would not be mutually exclusive.

But two installed ports with the same name (but different variants)  
will conflict. The the port group would also need to change the port's  
name based on the selected python variant , but that  would wreak  
havoc with indexing, etc.

-landonf