On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:47:24PM -0700, Mike Brown wrote: > A port I maintain (sorta) can only be built under Python 2.2.1 through 2.4.x. > The app isn't being developed any longer, so patches to get it to build under > 2.5+ aren't likely to be forthcoming. > > The port Makefile previously had USE_PYTHON= 2.2-2.4, but it was changed this > week to simply USE_PYTHON=2, with this comment: > > Python cleanup: > - USE_PYTHON* = 2.X -> USE_PYTHON* = 2 > - USE_PYTHON* = 2.X+ -> USE_PYTHON* = yes > Reviewed by: python (mva, rm) > Approved by: portmgr-lurkers (mat) > That means that port should either be removed from the ports tree, or one should fork it and port it to newer version of python.
Python 2.4- are EOLed upstream for long, we are respecting upstream, so there nothing more we can do about it. regards, Bapt
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