Re: Killing python15

[Laurence Tratt <laurie@tratt.net>]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 03:52:18PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

> In short, we keep python15 around because of a single port that, if you
> check the description, doesn't even provide functionality based on python
> but only serves to aid development for that obsolete version.
> In my opinion we should, in order,
> 1. remove all python1 flavors,
> 2. disable the python functionality and dependency in devel/swig,
> 3. kill devel/py-Distutils and lang/python15.
> 
> Now, I don't use Python, so I may not be the best person to judge this.
> Comments welcome.

In my opinion, all the python1.5 flavours should die (and py-Distutils), but
not the port itself. Lots of stuff happened post 1.5 which means for some
people (not me personally - so I'm neutral here) that 1.5 is the latest
version they can use since things break for them after that. For example,
it's only reasonably recently, I think, that Zope supported > 1.5?


Laurie