Change design of py-* ruby-* ports

[Florent Peterschmitt]

On 25/04/2013 22:03, David Demelier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Currently the ports tree has unified ports for python and ruby modules with 
> origin like databases/py-sqlalchemy. When someone wants to bulk the ports tree 
> to create packages the databases/py-sqlalchemy will only be built against the 
> current python version set in Mk/bsd.python.mk (or overriden in make.conf).
> 
> This is a very bad design and we should fix that as soon as possible, we are a 
> lot of people and some portmgr folks included that is not the best way to 
> manage python / ruby modules.
> 
> Let say I want to install a package, unfortunately this one requires some 
> python modules that are only working for python 2.7 but me as a developer I 
> want to develop with python 3, then we are stuck.
> 
> What we need to do now, is to move *all* py-* and ruby-* to their respective 
> versions i.e py27-* and ruby19 (or 18?).
> 
> Then we will need to copy all of these and set them to the newer version so 
> py33 and ruby20.
> 
> Also this will remove the breakage of OPTIONS, all of these ports needs the 
> dirty hack of OPTIONSFILE because of the ${PKGNAMEPREFIX}.
> 
> This will blow out the ports tree by adding a lot of ports, but it's the best 
> way to cover the both version and future bulk generation for users.
> 
> Regards,
> 

I agree with you. I thought about a PYTHON_VERSION="27 33" variable in
/etc/make.conf, generating each version of the module for each python
version if the port is able to do it, but then you may build versions of
module you don't need.

But before (don't know when), it was like you say. py27-, py26, and
everything merged to py-

I was not as implied as now in FreeBSD project but it was surelly
motivated by something.

-- 
Florent Peterschmitt
+33 (0)6 64 33 97 92
florent at peterschmitt.fr

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