libxml2 python subport

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 10:51, Khairil Yusof wrote:
> Some Zope ports, require libxml2 python bindings for python 2.1.
> 
> Currently with libxml2, you can only have a package with one version
> only (specified at runtime).
> 
> bsd.python.mk, and most python ports, already support having multiple
> versions with the same origin. eg. py21-foo, py23-foo with PKG_PREFIX
> 
> Looking in the ports tree, I see that databases/py-PyGreSQL solves this
> problem by being a subport of datbases/postgresql7
> 
> I'm thinking of making a subport textproc/py-libxml2, so that instead
> of a WITH_PYTHON knob, users can just build the libxml2 python package
> as a port, and have python libxml2 packages for different python
> versions if needed.
> 
> Is this the right way to do it? If it's ok, I'll start working on a
> patch and port.

Is this really necessary?  libxml2 builds with Python supported enabled
by default.  No one has complained thus far.

Joe

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