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On 14-07-2008 16:49:28 +1000, Matt Michalowski wrote: |
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> Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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>> If you really need it, we'll have to revive it again. I dropped the |
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>> 2.4 series when the 2.5 series were doing fine in Prefix, because Python |
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>> is a downright hell, and I wanted to avoid maintaining that hell where |
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>> not absolutely necessary. |
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> Wasn't Python (both 2.4 and 2.5) quite problematic on Leopard, and |
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> Pipping was only able to get 2.5 compiling on Leopard with some patches |
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> pulled from Apple's Darwin 9 sources? |
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> (this is my possibly incorrect recollection of history) |
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I removed 2.4 since there was a security update on it, which resulted in |
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a big mess again. We had 2.5, it worked fine, so I decided to nuke 2.4. |
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Could be that there were some problems on Leopard with 2.4, but that |
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doesn't have to be a showstopper, since we can mask there, if necessary |
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:) |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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