FreeBSD Port: lang/python

Hye-Shik Chang hyeshik at gmail.com
Sun Oct 15 20:28:29 PDT 2006


On 10/15/06, Volodymyr Kostyrko <arcade at genplan.donetsk.ua> wrote:
> Why not changing strict definition of PYTHON_VERSION to optional
> definition? The line like "PYTHON_VERSION?=        python2.4" in
> makefile can give people interested in testing python25 now or already
> upgraded and unwilling to change possibility of sticking back to
> python25 just by defining "PYTHON_VERSION=python2.5" in make.conf. And
> also it would not change default port behavior.

Because non-alternative binary links such as bin/python, bin/pydoc
are still installed by lang/python24.  We'll move the files under
lang/python after the freeze not to break python ports which call
just bin/python without a version suffix.  I think we can change
it as you said after the relocation.

Hye-Shik


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