Re: [HEADS UP] Removing python24 and python25

[D'Arcy Cain <darcy%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On 12-03-02 10:45 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Well, maybe I'm off.  But in that case, let's drop everything but 2.7
> and call it plain python, no suffix on the package, and no suffix on the
> installed files, and and remove all support for older versions, so that
> we'd treat it like perl5.  Would that be ok?  (That's a serious
> question; my impression is that it would not be ok.)

No, we need 2.7 and 3.x because 3.x is not quite ready for prime
time yet.  As for 2.[4567], as far as I can tell you are correct
except for Zope which requires a feature only available in 2.4
which is EOL'd so maybe we should drop Zope as well.  My impression
is that Zope people build it manually anyway.

> Or, we can change PYTHON_VERSION_REQUIRED to mean '>= X' instead of
> having to list them all, so that by default when a new 2.x is added it
> gets used.

That probably mostly works except for packages that rely on deprecated
features like Zope.  I am not sure how many that is but I would be
willing to look into any specific packages if you want.  My experience
is that when I come across packages that don't support 2.7 (my current
default) I can often get it working just by adding 27 to the list.

Oh yah, py-gd failed but that whole package was deprecated anyway.

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