On 18.02.2007, at 18:08, Jyrki Wahlstedt wrote:

On 18.2.2007, at 0.15, Weissmann Markus wrote:

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On 17.02.2007, at 17:42, Yves de Champlain wrote:

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Le 07-02-17 à 11:32, Yves de Champlain a écrit :

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Le 07-02-17 à 11:18, source_changes@macosforge.org a écrit :

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Revision 22092 Author mww@macports.org Date 2007-02-17 08:18:26 -0800 (Sat, 17 Feb 2007) Log Messagenew port py25-bz2 - python 2.5 bindings to bzip2

I am a bit confused. Python 2.5 is presented as current production version on python.org, but these commits make it look like a special case. Is there some sort of problem with python 2.5 on Mac ? Or is this a problem with how python is managed in MacPorts ?

Just let me be a little more precise : could there be py24-* and py25-* ports for python ports that use a specific PortGroup and py-* ports for python packages that don't use a PortGroup ?

No, I'd rather say we leave the py- prefix for 2.4 and use py25- for python 2.5; We could rename all py- ports to py24- but that'll probably more of a headache than just leaving them like this.

Hi, I'm not totally comfortable with this. It is inconsistent to use ports bound to specific version, unless there is really some very definite reason to do it (like with posgresql having different binary formats with different versions). Users who want the latest version, expect to find it with the name they have used, nobody wants to dig new names with versions attached to them. Engineers might find it easier to use such names, but engineers should make users' lives as easy as possible, not to create obstacles.

This isn't about engineers vs. users. The not-so-smart user you picture would not even care about specific python modules, but just about some software that might use this module. And it wouldn't bother him if this piece of software uses python 2.4 or 2.5. The problem is, that python 2.4 and 2.5 are _not_ compatible. A user will note care if a program uses python 2.4 or 2.5, but most programmers and port developers will be pissed if python modules show up randomly either in python 2.4 or 2.5 (or elsewhere). -Markus --- Markus W. Weissmann http://www.mweissmann.de/