Re: Python versions, portgroups, and portfiles

2010-11-30 Thread Konrad Hinsen
On 29 Nov 2010, at 22:16, Marshall Perrin wrote: Since 2.7 is going to be a long-term stable version of python (see http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html) it seems like we would want to get really solid support for it into macports. This is useful for me personally, so I'd like to hel

Re: Python versions, portgroups, and portfiles

2010-11-29 Thread Marshall Perrin
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:10 Ryan Schmidt wrote: > So the easiest way for us to accept Python 2.7 versions of existing Python 2.6 > ports is to receive a diff from the Python 2.6 portfile, and the diff should of > course include the minimum changes needed to accomplish the update. OK, great. I

Re: Python versions, portgroups, and portfiles

2010-11-29 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 29, 2010, at 15:16, Marshall Perrin wrote: > I've recently switched to using Python 2.7 as my primary python version, > using > Macports to install it. I've found however that Macports' system for handling > python versions is a bit cumbersome, since there are separate py26-* and > py27

Python versions, portgroups, and portfiles

2010-11-29 Thread Marshall Perrin
Hi all, I've recently switched to using Python 2.7 as my primary python version, using Macports to install it. I've found however that Macports' system for handling python versions is a bit cumbersome, since there are separate py26-* and py27-* packages, and despite the fact that 2.7 is essent