From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 30 13:38:08 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA6A8106564A; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:38:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cvs-src@yandex.ru) Received: from forward13.mail.yandex.net (forward13.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:801::3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DF038FC0C; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:38:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp11.mail.yandex.net (smtp11.mail.yandex.net [95.108.130.67]) by forward13.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id E5E5D142A7B; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:38:06 +0400 (MSD) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.ru; s=mail; t=1314711486; bh=H8TWzu6HzA7nezJHrcCS31IcQFGRq4KO2ntIMmduPHQ=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Dw6R0XIv0IPvF2/JANiZPMriO6cVLmMEaBECWln1+nbmXiClhDuWlzj41kU+mIZnV vQvJMoeRRgz+Da301rZFj2fu1NZPkg8ksBzusfl5tHvgTIamVW3sj9TeSLe8mcVlxg IF1sZtZIuzLtqj2WdoXh1lYVXMiWe3rmtTQ5h90s= Received: from smtp11.mail.yandex.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp11.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id C81EE7E0307; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:38:06 +0400 (MSD) Received: from unknown (unknown [213.27.65.65]) by smtp11.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTP id c6EWwbRv; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:38:06 +0400 X-Yandex-Spam: 1 Message-ID: <4E5CE7BB.8050808@yandex.ru> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:38:03 +0400 From: Ruslan Mahmatkhanov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110828 Thunderbird/6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: glarkin@FreeBSD.org References: <4E5CE015.70803@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4E5CE015.70803@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Ports Mailing List , miwi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Python min version bumped from 2.4+ to 2.5+ X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:38:08 -0000 Greg Larkin wrote on 30.08.2011 17:05: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Martin, > > I have a question about a commit you made in February 2011: > http://www.freshports.org/commit.php?message_id=201102250750.p1P7ofDg016541@repoman.freebsd.org&files=yes > > Part of the commit changed: > > USE_PYTHON= 2.4+ > > to > > USE_PYTHON= 2.5+ > > Was there a specific reason for doing so? I am running various > tinderbox builds to check on port usage of the USE_PYTHON variable, and > I noticed that devel/py-setuptools no longer builds if Python 2.4 is > selected. > > I'd like to restore that capability, but before I send a PR, I wanted to > check with you first. > > Thank you, > Greg > - -- > Greg Larkin > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve > http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. > http://twitter.com/cpucycle/ - Follow you, follow me I'm sorry for sail in, but i think that the reason is that python24 is reached it's EOL long time ago. Actually the only supported python releases atm according to python.org are - 2.7.2 and 3.2.1, and developers highly encourages the users to move to this versions. 2.5 and 2.6 are in security-fix-only mode, there will be no ANY releases for this branches after October 2011 and October 2013 respectively, while 2.4 does not get security-fixes even. There is also this answer from Martin in this pr: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/155526: python24 goes to the end of month, this port is on the todo for removal -- Regards, Ruslan Tinderboxing kills... the drives.