tex/rubber: use python25

[ram@…]

The attached patch updates tex/rubber to use python25.

[ram@…]

use python25

[milosh@…]

I am against this change. rubber works very well with python24 or apple's python (be it in tiger or in leopard) and as rubber installs outside of python's path I don't see the point of requiring a particular version.

Making it depend on python_select would be a good idea however.

[ram@…]

maintainer timeout

[ram@…]

commited in r37407

[jmr@…]

How was it a maintainer timeout? He responded in comment:1.

[ram@…]

Sorry, missed that. I've reverted the change in r37413

[raimue@…]

Replying to milosh@macports.org:

Making it depend on python_select would be a good idea however.

As python_select can't depend on any specific version of python, this won't work. Until we get a better dependency engine, my advice would be to add variants for each python version (+python24, +python25 etc.).

[milosh@…]

Replying to raimue@macports.org:

Replying to milosh@macports.org:

Making it depend on python_select would be a good idea however.

As python_select can't depend on any specific version of python, this won't work.

As rubber works very well with Apple's python, it does work. I've made the change in r37471.

Until we get a better dependency engine, my advice would be to add variants for each python version (+python24, +python25 etc.).

This should be done by python_select, not by rubber or any other port that does not install as a python package.

[ram@…]

Specifying the python binary to use with --python=${prefix}/bin/python will not point to a python executable if the user has not specified a python version using python_select.

[milosh@…]

Replying to ram@macports.org:

Specifying the python binary to use with --python=${prefix}/bin/python will not point to a python executable if the user has not specified a python version using python_select.

After installing python_select,

% ls -l /opt/local/bin/python
lrwxrwxrwx 1 11 2008-06-10 10:52 /opt/local/bin/python -> /usr/bin/python

This is enough for rubber to work.

[ram@…]

Wow, python_select didn't do that last time I used it. Great!

[anonymous]

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