Re: [Fink-devel] python variant convention

[Jack H. <ho...@br...>]

Dave,
   Perhaps I was confused by the proposed changes for the fink 10.5 release...

http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Fink:Packaging:Preparing_for_10.5

My reading of that was that py23 variants should be depreciated.
        Jack

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 09:33:39AM -0600, David R. Morrison wrote:
> Jack,
> 
> Actually, leaving the old variants of python in place is perfectly OK.  There may be people still using old versions of python (on 10.4 or 10.5) and leaving these variants for them is fine.  Of course, if a maintainer stops being able to test new versions of the package with old versions of python, the she or he should probably stop supporting the old versions.  Even in that case, though, it is a courtesy to add something like foo-py24.info to fink providing the old version of the package (in an obsolete variant) indefinitely into the future.
> 
>   -- Dave
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