On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 06:17:41PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > Currently scripting an installation of Python when bringing up a > machine from scratch is a bit annoying. pkg_add has % syntax but you > need to know the major/minor version, "pkg_add python%2.7" is ok because > it's not very likely to change, but for Python 3 which still receives > updates it's not so good - was python%3.6, now python%3.7, and it will > need to be %3.8 later.
> What does anyone think about adding a stupid meta/python3 port so > that you can just do "pkg_add python3"? > There is another way - pulling it in via an existing dependency (e.g. > "pkg_add py3-setuptools" that you're probably going to need anyway) > but it's not particularly intuitive so this seems a bit nicer. > (attached) Decent reasoning. I like how it will automatically change as we change python.port.mk ok kmos --Kurt
