mpv and python

[Mark Bestley]

Why does it all that python code just to run waf

Doesn't the waf portgroup as included in the port do all that is needed?


Mark

On 05/05/2016 14:32, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> Ideally the code in there would also handle the case where a requested
> Python variant isn't known to it, instead of crapping out with an
> undefined variable error in Tcl.
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Macports <mf2k at macports.org
> <mailto:mf2k at macports.org>> wrote:
>
>     Issues like this bug me too. I have filed a ticket [1] requesting a
>     python35 variant be added.
>
>
>     Cheers!
>     Frank
>
>     [1] <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51313>
>
>>     On May 5, 2016, at 7:09 AM, Russell Jones
>>     <russell.jones at physics.ox.ac.uk
>>     <mailto:russell.jones at physics.ox.ac.uk>> wrote:
>>
>>     It seems to have been pretty generically coded, so it may well
>>     work if you add 35 to the list. waf says it only works with 3.4 at
>>     https://github.com/waf-project/waf but maybe that's out of date?
>>
>>     Russell
>>
>>     On 05/05/16 13:53, Mark Bestley wrote:
>>>     I had decided that I want python3 variants as much as possible
>>>     and set -python27 +python35 in my variants.conf instead of
>>>     setting up each variant manually on the command line
>>>
>>>     However I tried to install mpv (which does not have a direct
>>>     python dependency just via youtube-dl) and I got
>>>
>>>     Error: org.macports.patch for port mpv returned: can't read
>>>     "python.version": no such variable
>>>
>>>     Why is it looking for python?
>>>
>>>     Mark
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