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.