On Feb 4, 2008, at 12:07, Emmanuel Hainry wrote:
Citando js :
Just as you said, it might not so easy to fix things all now, but I think changes for better are a good thing and worth the effort. Everyone love to see consistent system layout, right? And having a beautiful system forces the system to remain same, I think.
As python2.5 should be the stable version and python2.4 slowly disappear, I feel renaming dozens of ports is just not worth it.
Not dozens: 336.
The future is bright but there is no python<2.5 in it. And in fact, obtaining a beautiful python modules tree would mean having one port per package that builds conveniently for each installed python, not having py24-blabla, py25-blabla, py26-blabla and py30-blabla that are identical but a few characters...
This was debated before and it was decided by those who understand python that separate ports made more sense. I believe part of the reason was that you might want to have both python-24- and python-25- versions of a given port installed.