Re: RFC: Python maintenance policy

2014-09-25 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
On Sep 25, 2014, at 8:50 AM, Eric Gallager wrote: > Maybe not new py24-foo or new py25-foo ports, but what about +python24 > or +python25 variants for ordinary ports that have python bindings? I'm not sure what you're asking. I don't think people are introducing new variants either. In any case

Re: RFC: Python maintenance policy

2014-09-25 Thread Eric Gallager
Maybe not new py24-foo or new py25-foo ports, but what about +python24 or +python25 variants for ordinary ports that have python bindings? For example, this isn't the port itself, but from reading the upstream gdb mailing lists, it looks like gdb upstream actually extended their support for python

Re: RFC: Python maintenance policy

2014-09-23 Thread Christoph Deil
On 23 Sep 2014, at 04:46, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > Maintaining old versions of CPython that aren't supported upstream is > annoying and a poor use of our time, so I'd like to propose > a maintenance policy. After we chit-chat about it, I'll write something > up on the wiki (hopefully a little

Re: RFC: Python maintenance policy

2014-09-23 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
On Sep 23, 2014, at 3:49 AM, Andrea D'Amore wrote: > The policy is informally half in place, noone is actually creating new > py24-foo or py25-bar (or at least I hope soo) Yup. Most of it really is just common sense. I just want to formalize it for the future, so we have something to point to

Re: RFC: Python maintenance policy

2014-09-23 Thread Sean Farley
Brandon Allbery writes: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:49 AM, Sean Farley wrote: > >> I actually have the back story for this from the last PyCon. Suffice to >> say, it's because of Python 3 screwing up the treatment of unicode >> strings. >> > > Huh. I'd assumed arm-twisting from Red Hat, possibl

Re: RFC: Python maintenance policy

2014-09-23 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:49 AM, Sean Farley wrote: > I actually have the back story for this from the last PyCon. Suffice to > say, it's because of Python 3 screwing up the treatment of unicode > strings. > Huh. I'd assumed arm-twisting from Red Hat, possibly with an education about enterprise

Re: RFC: Python maintenance policy

2014-09-23 Thread Andrea D'Amore
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Sean Farley wrote: > it's because of Python 3 screwing up the treatment of unicode strings. It's spelled "improved". I'm liking py3 insofar. -- Andrea ___ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org

Re: RFC: Python maintenance policy

2014-09-23 Thread Andrea D'Amore
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 4:46 AM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > == POLICY == > […] The policy is informally half in place, noone is actually creating new py24-foo or py25-bar (or at least I hope soo), that said I'm glad to see old py* ports being phased out. This could be handled by the py

Re: RFC: Python maintenance policy

2014-09-22 Thread Sean Farley
Lawrence Velázquez writes: > Maintaining old versions of CPython that aren't supported upstream is > annoying and a poor use of our time, so I'd like to propose > a maintenance policy. After we chit-chat about it, I'll write something > up on the wiki (hopefully a little clearer) and inform macpo

RFC: Python maintenance policy

2014-09-22 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
Maintaining old versions of CPython that aren't supported upstream is annoying and a poor use of our time, so I'd like to propose a maintenance policy. After we chit-chat about it, I'll write something up on the wiki (hopefully a little clearer) and inform macports-users. The term "replaced by" si