Re: how to indicate the minimum version of python required?

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 11:45:52AM +0100, Georg Schwarz wrote:
> Yet another probably easy question which leaves me clueless.
> The package needs at least python 3.0 (both at build and run times).
> I tried
> 
> DEPENDS+=       python>=3.0:../../lang/python
> ...
> .include "../../lang/python/application.mk"
> 
> which trows
> 
> => Full dependency python>=3.0: NOT found
> => Verifying reinstall for ../../lang/python
> bmake[1]: don't know how to make reinstall. Stop
> 
> 
> I guess this is because no appropriate buildlink3.mk file is included.
> What's the correct way of indicating that dependency?
> Do I need to add
> 
> PYTHON_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED= 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39
> 
> but what about python 4.0 coming out?

The comments in lang/python/pyversion.mk are quite helpful about this.

The easiest way is just to set

PYTHON_VERSIONS_INCOMPATIBLE= 27

 Thomas