The following reply was made to PR ports/171584; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marcus von Appen <m...@freebsd.org> To: bug-follo...@freebsd.org, pyt...@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: ports/171584: lang/python32 built in a clean enviroment produces a package that conflicts with lang/python27 Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 19:27:09 +0200 --g7w8+K/95kPelPD2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Koop Mast wrote on Mon, 24 Sep 2012: > I don't have a solution for this issue, but I would like to point out > that the next version of GNOME 3 (3.8 series) will switch to python 3. > While I think that we can get away with having python 2.7 as default, > having the two python versions conflict isn't going to help at all. I do not see the issue with the ports system here, but rather with package managers, which do not handle conditional behaviour in ports well enough. There would be several solutions: * get rid completely of bin/2to3, bin/pydoc<PYMAJOR>, bin/idle<PYMAJOR, bin/python and so on, which is likely to break tons of ports and 3rd party software without a chance to ever fix this cleanly * add the symlink creation for bin/python, etc. to the existing meta-package lang/python (where it belongs anyways in my opinion) and into relevant <PYMAJOR> meta-packages lang/python2, lang/python3, etc., which depend on a default version (usually the latest one), which can be overriden by users * fix up or enhance the package managers to support the conditionals within the ports. I would prefer the second solution, which manages the symlink creation in own packages and ports. Cheers Marcus --g7w8+K/95kPelPD2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlBwae0ACgkQi68/ErJnpkdBlgCgwZve5kcENWowMRb9ysjNL8gC uogAoIerPdfTL+kdryXrDHwBogT3fsu6 =UXYb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --g7w8+K/95kPelPD2-- _______________________________________________ freebsd-python@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-python To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-python-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
