Re: [Fink-devel] python variant convention

2010-06-26 Thread David R. Morrison
Yes, deprecated for 10.5 and beyond, but not for 10.4 (which we still support). Similarly, py24 is deprecated for 10.6, but not for 10.5. However, "deprecated" does not mean "remove support for prior distributions". In fact, the Distribution lines which you noticed in the .info files were added

Re: [Fink-devel] python variant convention

2010-06-26 Thread Jack Howarth
Dave, Perhaps I was confused by the proposed changes for the fink 10.5 release... http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Fink:Packaging:Preparing_for_10.5 My reading of that was that py23 variants should be depreciated. Jack On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 09:33:39AM -0600, David R. Morrison w

Re: [Fink-devel] python variant convention

2010-06-26 Thread David R. Morrison
Jack, Actually, leaving the old variants of python in place is perfectly OK. There may be people still using old versions of python (on 10.4 or 10.5) and leaving these variants for them is fine. Of course, if a maintainer stops being able to test new versions of the package with old versions