Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:10:35 +0200 From: Vasil Dimov <vd@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexander Botero-Lowry <alexbl@FreeBSD.org> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org, ports-developers@FreeBSD.org, pav@FreeBSD.org, python@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The way to fix ports/104560 Message-ID: <20070123121035.GA41675@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> In-Reply-To: <20070123112924.4023339F66@cherenkov.geekfire.com> References: <20070123104738.GA41157@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> <1169549704.6221.10.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <20070123112924.4023339F66@cherenkov.geekfire.com>
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:31:29 -0800, Alexander Botero-Lowry wrote:
> > > Please take a look at ports/104560 (and also ports/105853 and
> > > ports/106120) and come to a consensus what is the right way to fix this
> > > issue.
> > >
> > > I am sure we can come to an agreement and shortly commit a fix.
> >
> > As I see it:
> >
> > - lang/python metaport must be removed
> > - all lang/python2? ports will install $PREFIX/bin/python binary
> >
> > How that sounds?
> >
> > Or if people absolutely need to have several different pythons on a
> > system, make the bin/python automatical symlink, like in perl ports.
> This fails to deal with installing the site-packages in the appropriate
> site-package directories. The same site-package directory can't be used
> because the pyc and pyo format changes between python implementations,
> so python needs to be able to generate the appropriate wants per python
> installation.
>
> For ports that use USE_PYDISTUTILS (which is the most common way to install
> a python package) ${PYTHON} is used, so I don't see why other ports shouldn't
> follow the convention.
>
> I do _agree_ that something should always be installed as python,
I think, this is the only issue about ports/104560
("x11-toolkits/py-gtk2 does not configure with python2.5").
So we have come to a consensus, right?
(bin/python should be installed by lang/python25)
> without
> version, but that doesn't mean that ports should just assume python when
> installing. They should use ${PYTHON} to be safe, and to make sure things
> are installed where the user wants them to be installed.
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Vasil Dimov
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