New patch to upgrade python to 2.5

[Chuck Swiger]

On Mar 5, 2007, at 12:25 PM, Alexander Botero-Lowry wrote:
>>  * ${PREFIX}/bin/python may not be available even though a consumer
>>    port used USE_PYTHON.  It'll be need to use the filename including
>>    python version (eg. python2.5) in scripts or shebang lines.
>>    ${PYTHON_CMD} is provided by bsd.python.mk for this purpose.
>
> I think in all honesty we need to have something linked to
> $LOCALBASE/bin/python always.

I strongly second this position.

> There are too many situations where people
> might have non ports managed stuff installed that has a shebang for a
> simple python binary, and even cases where python is invoked more  
> directly
> that cause issues. I see this is also causing a problem for  
> committers and
> submitters that have to patch or sed _every_ shebang line in existence
> instead of just getting a simple solution to the problem.

Python has handled potentially incompatible API changes and  
deprecation extremely well, and there are few times indeed when the  
majority of Python code needs to pay any attention to the specific  
version of the Python interpreter which is installed.

-- 
-Chuck