Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:45:00 +0900 From: Hye-Shik Chang <perky@freebsd.org> To: "P.U.Kruppa" <ulrich@pukruppa.net> Cc: cvs-ports@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.python.mk ports/lang/python Makefile ports/lang/python24 Makefile pkg-plist ports/lang/python24/files patch-setup.py ports/lang/python25 Makefile pkg-plist ports/lang/python25/files patch-setup.py Message-ID: <20061013074500.GA91989@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20061013093249.O1489@pukruppa.net> References: <200610130716.k9D7Gkvt056035@repoman.freebsd.org> <20061013093249.O1489@pukruppa.net>
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On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 09:36:15AM +0200, P.U.Kruppa wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Hye-Shik Chang wrote:
>
> > Log:
> > Revert the default version of Python to 2.4 for the ports freeze
> > period. Python 2.5 brought a vast range of incompatibility to a
> > large number of ports, so the python@ team will do more basic
> > compatibility work in a private repository and merge it later.
> > Sorry for the inconvenience.
> Although I have got about 800 ports installed nothing serious has
> happened after the Python upgrade.
> Is there some knob to keep python 2.5 as default?
>
You can use PYTHON_VERSION=2.5 in your /etc/make.conf. The most
python ports will use 2.5 by default then. But you must execute
${PREFIX}/bin/python2.5 insteand of ${PREFIX}/bin/python, still.
Hye-Shik
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