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On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 16:27 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> To make ebuilds utilizing python-distutils-ng.eclass usable |
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> "out-of-the-box", the python team would like to add the following to |
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> make.defaults in the base profile. |
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> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" |
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> See also bug 415575 [1]. |
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I think this should have been done when the eclass was first committed. |
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When there is no default setting people will have to set something |
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themselves and it becomes much harder for the python team to provide a |
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smooth upgrade path by adding in new preferred targets later on. |
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> I would also like to include python3_2, but I do not think this will be |
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> possible due to dev-lang/python:3.2 not being stabilized on several |
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> arches. Perhaps this could be set in arch-specific profiles? Would that |
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> work? |
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Yes, arch-specific profiles would work, we do the same for ruby where |
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jruby and ree18 are only available on a few arches. |
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Hans |