Date: 07 Sep 2000 14:48:03 +0200 From: Thomas Gellekum <tg@melaten.rwth-aachen.de> To: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How are future Python ports going to be handled? Message-ID: <kqwvgopdvg.fsf@cip12.melaten.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: Johann Visagie's message of "Thu, 7 Sep 2000 14:17:54 %2B0200" References: <20000906180329.D16551@fling.sanbi.ac.za> <kqvgw8qvcr.fsf@cip12.melaten.rwth-aachen.de> <20000907141754.D74243@fling.sanbi.ac.za>
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Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> writes: > "So, should you take much interest in Python 1.6? Probably not. The We need to keep Python-1.5 anyway, so there's no real point in _not_ upgrading. At least this will give us some ideas which programs and/or extensions are likely to break for Python 2.0. Things might get a bit unstable in the process, but as long as we keep Python 1.5 around they can at least be fixed very quickly. > > I will modify all the ports that install extensions into > > .../python1.5/site-packages to check for python1.5:lang/python15 as to > > not break package building. These upgrades will happen tomorrow (I > > have the changes ready, just wait another day). > > I was about to submit a PR to update py-biopython, but maybe I'll hold off > until the changes have propagated. BTW, I see there's also a new distutils > (0.9.2) and I've heard rumours of that causing more breakage. Oh well, > things are about to get interesting... Haven't seen that yet, I need to catch up on the CVS version. [bsd.python.mk] > > This can also be used to build things like zope or mailman which might > > expect an older python version. > > Interesting, thanks. I know the current Zope breaks under 1.6b1 - haven't > tested it on 1.6 final yet. I'm sure there won't be a difference. Guido didn't take any of my patches to 1.6b1 (`it's too close to the release'), so I don't expect more than fixes for real showstoppers in 1.6. tg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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