Adding Python 2.7 to linux-c7

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2017 16:08:03 -0600 Zhihao Yuan <zy at miator.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Tijl Coosemans <tijl at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> The motivation is that some Python software ship Linux-
>>> specific binaries, and we want to enable the uses.  
>>
>> Can you give an example of such software, because adding python and
>> its modules is a big decision.  
> 
> This is the one our research team is
> working on:
> 
>   https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sciunit2

The source code appears to be at https://bitbucket.org/geotrust/sciunit2/src
so why not create a regular FreeBSD port?

> It doesn't work in linuxulator yet, but
> our further contribution may make it
> work.  I could try to ship on
> 
>   https://conda.io/docs/index.html
> 
> but still, pypi is a much easier platform
> to approach for the users.
> 
> Since Python added manylinux1 abi
> support to wheels, I suspect that it
> may be popular to ship Linux-specific
> binaries -- unless we propose a
> freebsd abi to PEP?
> 
> And I don't think this is a *big* decision...
> All we need are just Python modules
> with Linux binaries, we are not asking
> for packaging everything starting from
> setuptools!

I see.  I'm going to hold off on committing them though, until you have
something that actually works.  I don't want to add ports that nobody
uses.