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. On Feb 4, 2008 1:10 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign@macports.org> wrote:
On Feb 2, 2008, at 18:06, skip@pobox.com wrote:
js> So IMHO using py24 prefix for 2.4 port would be more intuitive.
js> What do you think of this?
+1. In fact, with Python 2.6 and 3.0 on the way I suspect it would be best to add version numbers to all versions of Python for awhile.
It has already been established that python 2.5 ports shall have the py25 prefix and python 3.0 ports shall have the py30 prefix. If there's a python 2.6 version coming, then these should use the py26 prefix. Python 2.4 ports use the py prefix because we had not established the rules at that time and it is a major hassle to change this now. There are a handful of ports that depend on python 2.3, but none of them are in the python category, so none of them have a py prefix. There are ports for python 2.2 and python 2.1 but I don't see any ports that depend on those.