Python frameworks

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 02:31, Russell Jones
<russell.jones at physics.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> > If so, I would be strongly against that. "port select" is exclusively for
> a user's convenience; no port should change how it installs or functions
> based on what the user may or may not have "port select"ed.
>
> I can kind of see why you wouldn't want this on principle, but could you
> elaborate? Why should a user have to select which version of python they
> want for every package, when in the majority of cases the same version will
> be desired? Having a default doesn't exclude exceptions.
>

When the user uses port select to change the default Python, what should
happen to all of these?  How do you plan to implement it?  What if there
isn't a version of something installed this way for the selected Python
variant?

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