Restructuring Python ports?

Akira Kitada akitada at macports.org
Fri Jan 2 20:29:37 PST 2009


You got me...

Then I think current python26 is the best we can.
would like to break the other pythons to be built in this way...

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
> Akira Kitada wrote:
>> I prefer the way how python26 is built now to python25's, mostly
>> because it eliminated the need to specify
>> "depends_lib-append port:py25-hashlib port:py25-zlib" again and again...
>>
>> I'm so happy with it and really hate the way it was in python25,
>> and that's why I wanted it to be propagated to other versions of python,
>> even it breaks the existing ports. (To me they are already broken in
>> different way)
>>
>> I think it's safe to drop "bsddb", "sqlite3", "tkinter" and  "gdbm",
>> just as in FreeBSD Port system, though.
>
> Note that IDLE doesn't work without tkinter...
>
> - Josh
>


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