> Why do we maintain two separate versions of python any more?
>
> I.e, what's wrong with always enabling threads, and linking
> against GNU-pth (?) for non-threads-enabled platforms?
>

It was only about 30 min. to the start of the pkgsrc-tree and thus I 
didn't want to make any major changes. After the freeze following 
perl58's lead (using dlopen.mk) is IHMO "The Right Thing" to do.

Cheers,
Marc