Citando js : > Just as you said, it might not so easy to fix things all now, > but I think changes for better are a good thing and worth the effort. > Everyone love to see consistent system layout, right? > And having a beautiful system forces the system to remain same, I think. >
As python2.5 should be the stable version and python2.4 slowly disappear, I feel renaming dozens of ports is just not worth it. The future is bright but there is no python<2.5 in it. And in fact, obtaining a beautiful python modules tree would mean having one port per package that builds conveniently for each installed python, not having py24-blabla, py25-blabla, py26-blabla and py30-blabla that are identical but a few characters... > On Feb 4, 2008 1:10 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 2, 2008, at 18:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > js> So IMHO using py24 prefix for 2.4 port would be more > > > intuitive. > > > > > > js> What do you think of this? > > > > > > +1. In fact, with Python 2.6 and 3.0 on the way I suspect it would > > > be best > > > to add version numbers to all versions of Python for awhile. > > > > It has already been established that python 2.5 ports shall have the > > py25 prefix and python 3.0 ports shall have the py30 prefix. If > > there's a python 2.6 version coming, then these should use the py26 > > prefix. Python 2.4 ports use the py prefix because we had not > > established the rules at that time and it is a major hassle to change > > this now. There are a handful of ports that depend on python 2.3, but > > none of them are in the python category, so none of them have a py > > prefix. There are ports for python 2.2 and python 2.1 but I don't see > > any ports that depend on those. > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
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