Re: [Fink-devel] Killing python26

2014-03-24 Thread Derek Homeier
On 23.03.2014, at 9:50PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: >>> >>> Does anyone know btw if 3.4 already comes with full setuptools support >>> included? >>> It has a %i/bin/easy_install-3.4, and I was able to build and test >>> coverage, nose >>> and numpy without installing it, so maybe a change is in or

Re: [Fink-devel] Killing python26

2014-03-23 Thread Daniel Johnson
On Mar 23, 2014, at 4:36 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: > > On Mar 23, 2014, at 8:31 AM, Derek Homeier > wrote: > >> On 20.03.2014, at 4:20PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: >> >>> I agree. There's no reason to keep 2.6 around as 2.7 is fully backward >>> compatible. >>> >> Just an aside, anyone aware

Re: [Fink-devel] Killing python26

2014-03-23 Thread Daniel Johnson
On Mar 23, 2014, at 8:31 AM, Derek Homeier wrote: > On 20.03.2014, at 4:20PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: > >> I agree. There's no reason to keep 2.6 around as 2.7 is fully backward >> compatible. >> > Just an aside, anyone aware of any major Linux distros that still only > provide 2.6? > This w

Re: [Fink-devel] Killing python26

2014-03-23 Thread Derek Homeier
On 20.03.2014, at 4:20PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: > I agree. There's no reason to keep 2.6 around as 2.7 is fully backward > compatible. > Just an aside, anyone aware of any major Linux distros that still only provide 2.6? This was an issue for many packages like numpy to keep support for older

Re: [Fink-devel] Killing python26

2014-03-20 Thread TheSin
I agree with all of this we only really need 27 and 33/34. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On Mar 20, 2014, at 9:20 AM, Daniel Johnson wrote: > > On Mar 20, 2014, at 9:40 AM, TheSin wrote: > >> I vote take out the axe, your python

Re: [Fink-devel] Killing python26

2014-03-20 Thread Daniel Johnson
On Mar 20, 2014, at 9:40 AM, TheSin wrote: > I vote take out the axe, your python version options are getting out of hand > honestly. > --- > TS > http://www.southofheaven.org/ > Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! > > On Mar 20, 2014, at 12:13 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: >

Re: [Fink-devel] Killing python26

2014-03-20 Thread TheSin
I vote take out the axe, your python version options are getting out of hand honestly. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On Mar 20, 2014, at 12:13 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: > We've been dragging python26 along for years, since back when

[Fink-devel] Killing python26

2014-03-19 Thread Daniel Macks
We've been dragging python26 along for years, since back when it was the latest thing. It's not. Python27 has been available in fink for many years, and even in the past several OS X versions. Upstream says "Python itself has jumped to the 3.x series in 2008, with some major changes that may mak