After a recent ports update (MacPorts 1.4.0 from the repo a few days ago), I noticed an interesting quirk. The current port for py-psycopg (version 1.1.21) requires libraries from python 2.4 (port python24) and PostgreSQL 8.2.3 (port postgresql82): $ port deps py-psycopg
py-psycopg has library dependencies on: postgresql82 py-mx python24 openssl
Yet, if you want to install postgres82 with the python variant, the Portfile for postgresql82 wants Python 2.5: variant python {
depends_lib-append port:python25 configure.args-append --with-python configure.env-append PYTHON=${prefix}/bin/python2.5 }
What should one do? Is it ok for python24 and python25 to co-exist and both be active at the same time? I presume that if I install python24 in sequence before python25, then after installing python25 I can then install postgresql82 with the python variant and then go ahead and install py-psycopg to let it build against its desired libraries from both python24 and postgresql82? Hopefully this won't lead to problems because I want to later install the trac port with the postgres variant and trac can be set up to use py-psycopg Has anyone tried this out yet? Best regards, T.M.