From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 14 09:42:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB07716A4CE; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 09:42:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rrcs-midsouth-24-172-16-118.biz.rr.com [24.172.16.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50E2643D5E; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 09:42:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [10.2.1.4] (vpn-client-4.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.4]) i0EHfrsm093613; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:41:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Khairil Yusof In-Reply-To: <20040114155101.GA35788@streamyx.com> References: <20040114155101.GA35788@streamyx.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-zKSD61UKCQd+EfbKZI7z" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1074102190.774.17.camel@gyros> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:43:10 -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.61 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.61 (1.212.2.1-2003-12-09-exp) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users cc: python@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libxml2 python subport X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:42:57 -0000 --=-zKSD61UKCQd+EfbKZI7z Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 10:51, Khairil Yusof wrote: > Some Zope ports, require libxml2 python bindings for python 2.1. >=20 > Currently with libxml2, you can only have a package with one version > only (specified at runtime). >=20 > bsd.python.mk, and most python ports, already support having multiple > versions with the same origin. eg. py21-foo, py23-foo with PKG_PREFIX >=20 > Looking in the ports tree, I see that databases/py-PyGreSQL solves this > problem by being a subport of datbases/postgresql7 >=20 > I'm thinking of making a subport textproc/py-libxml2, so that instead > of a WITH_PYTHON knob, users can just build the libxml2 python package > as a port, and have python libxml2 packages for different python > versions if needed. >=20 > Is this the right way to do it? If it's ok, I'll start working on a > patch and port. Is this really necessary? libxml2 builds with Python supported enabled by default. No one has complained thus far. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-zKSD61UKCQd+EfbKZI7z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBABX+ub2iPiv4Uz4cRAk/dAJ9zSrYHvzzlWZDnkPiFjegULo5S1wCdHYkx pvbDx3PmNnamqlNcPn+ARTQ= =H+qI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-zKSD61UKCQd+EfbKZI7z--