Alexander Hansen wrote:
> On 7/3/12 8:41 AM, Robert Wyatt wrote:
>> Robert Wyatt wrote:
>>> Hi fink team,
>>>
>>> I'm maintaining denyhosts (in a most laissez-faire fashion) and when
>>> it builds it uses specific paths based on the version of python used.
>>> So it does things like putting logs in /sw/var/log/denyhosts-py26 or
>>> some such, similarly for docs, iirc. As a result, I have versioned
>>> packages -py26, etc., even though the executable doesn't really care
>>> which version of python is installed, it's just a (robust) script. The
>>> versioning is required because the .debs are different.
>>>
>>> In endeavoring to make this package available on 10.7, I would ask the
>>> group which version(s) of python I should support (because I really
>>> don't want to hack the program to get around this problem and I'd
>>> rather not support every possible flavor if I don't have to). On
>>> 10.5-10.6 I supported -py24, -py25, and -py26.
>>>
>>> I guess one way of putting the question  would be, which version(s) of
>>> python may I expect to be present on a user's 10.7 system?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your input,
>>> Robert
>> By way of exploring this on my own, I'm seeing:
>> $ which python
>> /usr/bin/python
>> $ python -V
>> Python 2.7.1
>>
>> So I reckon I'll make a -py27 for 10.7 and leave it at that unless there
>> are better answers....
>>
>>
> The better answers are -py26 and -py27, which are the _Fink_ python
> versions for 10.7.
>
> Apple's python version is irrelevant unless you're planning to build
> against the system's python27--and that's a little more involved.

Ok, thanks Alexander!

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