ports/155526: [PATCH] devel/py-elementtree: ignore if python >= 2.5

[Ruslan Mahmatkhanov]

The following reply was made to PR ports/155526; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ruslan Mahmatkhanov <cvs-src at yandex.ru>
To: Marcus von Appen <mva at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/155526: [PATCH] devel/py-elementtree: ignore if python
 >= 2.5
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:13:42 +0400

 Marcus von Appen wrote on 07.06.2012 19:39:
 > As long as www/py-Products.TinyMCE depends on it, there is no way to
 > delete it (without fixing www/py-Products.TinyMCE beforehand for python
 >> = 2.5).
 >
 > Also, as it does not do any harm (no package name confusion with
 > xml.etree.elementTree and _elementtree), it is not really necessary to
 > force the deletion of it.
 >
 > Cheers
 > Marcus
 
 Yes, but why do we need to hold the ports, that nobody using and will 
 not be anyway? All the ports I saw, that uses elementTree, first 
 checking if they can import xml.etree and if they not, then they will 
 try to fallback to standalone _elementtree. And since python24/25 will 
 be removed soon, there is no sense to hold them.
 
 The only difference between them is HTMLTreeBuilder class that is 
 missing in xml.etree (and that py-Products.TinyMCE is using), so 
 py-elementtree should stay until Products.TinyMCE will be ported to 
 py-lxml, and py-celementtree is safe to remove (because nobody using 
 it). This ports/155526 should be closed too, because it's now impossible 
 to remove this port.
 
 PS. The same belongs to simplejson/json case. Most ports try to use 
 bundled json module first, and try to import simplejson if they fail 
 (python<2.6). But there is couple of ports that need exactly simplejson 
 implementation.
 
 -- 
 Regards,
 Ruslan
 
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