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Date:      Thu, 1 Aug 2013 21:50:23 +0200
From:      Marcus von Appen <mva@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-python@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Naming of lang/pypy and lang/pypy3
Message-ID:  <20130801195023.GA1345@medusa.sysfault.org>
In-Reply-To: <1595859.oJfAmeEhYc@dragon.dg>
References:  <1595859.oJfAmeEhYc@dragon.dg>

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On, Thu Aug 01, 2013, David Naylor wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> The pypy team have released a version of pypy that supports python-3.2 (while
> the existing port supports python-2.7).
>
> I would like to quickly talk about two concepts here:
>  * python language version (such as python-2.7, python-3.2, etc)
>  * python implementation version (such as pypy-2.1, jython-?.?, ironpython-?.?
> and cpython-2.7)
>
>
> Currently the only supported implementation of python in bsd.python.mk is
> cpython and bsd.python.mk assumes the implementation and language version is
> the same.  Of note, pypy seems to be the only implementation who's version
> does not match the language.  I would like to eventually teach bsd.python.mk
> about different implementations, so with that in mind the current situation
> for pypy is:
>
> The pypy library directory and binary are suffixed with the implementation
> version (currently 2.1) however with pypy3 keeping the same version as pypy
> (and pypy32.1 is just confusing) how should I handle the version numbering?
>
> I could think of:
>  a) use the language version as the suffix (i.e. pypy2.7 and pypy3.2)
>  b) use a combination of the two (i.e. pypy2.1-2.7 and pypy2.1-2.7)
>  c) use some other numbering scheme
>
> I currently prefer using option (a).  Your thoughts?

a) would cause a big mismatch when users report errors to the pypy
upstream. Do not do it.
b) just looks overly complicated to me
c) naaaaaaah

How about something like:

pypy-2.1 (or pypy2-2.1)
pypy3-2.1

This would match the pypy versions perfectly in my opinion.

(On a side note: do you mind to move pypy betas into a pypy-devel port
or such alike? The beta versions currently prevent using pypy as
more or less stable replacement for CPython).

Cheers
Marcus

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