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Date:      Sat, 13 Apr 2019 10:59:54 -0700
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports/lang major version updates outside of OS version updates
Message-ID:  <20190413175954.GA29960@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.OFS.7.76.444.1904130714130.10594@mx.roble.com>
References:  <nycvar.OFS.7.76.444.1904130714130.10594@mx.roble.com>

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On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 07:35:25AM -0700, Roger Marquis wrote:
> >> On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 11:18:50PM +0200, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> >>> So there is more "software bureaucracy" here than just applying one patch.
> 
> You sure about that Dima?  Whether one or several the patching doesn't
> appear to be complicated or difficult to maintain.
> 
> > On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 02:58:22PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > For those people following along in the mailing list, Dima
> > sent me a private reply that took this thread off the list.
> > I am done trying to help fix the python ports.
> 
> Thanks for the good work Steve.
> 
> Many of us are still wondering why this change was made outside of a
> major OS version update.  Wouldn't that have prevented the build bug
> which started this thread?
> 
> Considering the incompatibilities between python 2.X and 3.x (which
> Guido has admitted was a mistake) please consider this a ports policy
> request to require significant lang/* version updates be predicated on
> equally significant OS version updates.
> 

My patches have absolutely nothing to do with making
3.6 the default python version.

I have added functions to libm that are included in
two ISO standards.  This causes a name conflict with
sinpi() in python.  My patches trivially rename 
python's sinpi() to avoid the conflict.  For some reason
beyond the comprehension of mortal man, python@freebsd
refuses to add the patches to the port.

-- 
Steve



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