Hi Markus,
does not compute: "python25 drops but python25 doesn't" -- contradiction detected. ;)
Oops! That's typo. My question was why python2.4 and 2.5 is different.
If the question was why python25 does not build all auxiliary modules [1] like _sqlite3 etc.: For people who don't need e.g. tk-support, building all those dependencies is unnecessary. We had this discussion of which modules would be cool to include by default and which not to already. Conclusion was that either we rename python25 to python25-core and make a "virtual" port python25 that requires all modules+python25-core OR to make a python25-all (or whatever) port that collects all "cool" modules by dependency. The former sucks because we would need to change a lot of dependencies and the latter never made it into the repository because nobody cared enough. If someone is keen on getting the former to work: Please fix all dependencies!!! (And please also make this consistent for 2.4 and 3.0)
Thanks for thorough explanation. That makes sense. The reason why I started this discussion is that I want to make python24 to be python25-like port. What if I created patches for this, Would you accept that changes? As for python25's design you brought up, I prefer the former, which apparently not your favorite :) The former reminds me of Debian/GNU Linux's "python" package. The python package is a dependency package which depends on "default python", python2.4 and python-minimal. Any chance making this changes? To be honest, I also want to change py- prefix ports to py24- but this plan is rejected recently...