On Wed, 18 May 2016 08:02:59 +0100 Matthew Seaman <matt...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Dear all, > > The state of the SQLAlchemy ports currently in the tree is pretty dire. > SQLAlchemy is perhaps the premiere ORM written in Python and we really > should have decent support for it. Plus I know of at least two new as > yet uncommitted ports waiting on availability of an up-to-date version. > > Can I draw your attention to PRs 191442 and 205852 and Review D908: > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191442 > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205852 > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D908 > > The scope of changes involved includes, amongst other things, a > reorganization of what sqlalchemy ports are available in the tree. > Currently we have: > > Port Version Maintainer > ---------------------------------------------- > py-sqlalchemy06 0.6.9 ni...@freebsd.org > py-sqlalchemy 0.7.10 ni...@freebsd.org > py-sqlalchemy-devel 0.8.2 ni...@freebsd.org > > I'm proposing the following: > > py-sqlalchemy06 0.6.9 ni...@freebsd.org (Deprecate 2016-08-20) > py-sqlalchemy07 0.7.10 ni...@freebsd.org (Deprecate 2016-08-20) > py-sqlalchemy08 0.8.7 ni...@freebsd.org > py-sqlalchemy09 0.9.10 m.tsatse...@gmail.com > py-sqlalchemy10 1.0.13 m.tsatse...@gmail.com I wonder, why to create as many SQLAlchemy ports as releases (it's just an ORM after all). The easiest way, imho is focusing on 1.0.x releases, and having only one port databases/py-sqlalchemy. > > I've marked two of the ports for deletion in 3 months time, on the basis > that a) upstream has declared those ports EoL and b) 5 different > versions of the same package is really a bit much. > > During that three months, there is further work to do on consumers of > SQLAlchemy in the tree: most consumers should work happily with more > recent versions, but currently most of them are depending on version > 0.7.x as the generic 'py-sqlalchemy' port. This will all need testing, > obviously. > > Comments, constructive criticism and reviews welcome. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > > -- Olivier Duchateau <olivi...@freebsd.org> _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
