python24 universal x86_64/i386 fails on Snow Leopard

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

See summary.

[blb@…]

Is there any reason we should care about any python < 2.6 on 10.6 (and, really, in general)?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Because the ports exist, and other ports depend on them. I was trying to resolve #14339 which is for a python 2.4 module and this caused python24 to start to install and since +universal is in my variants.conf the reported error occurred, so I filed a ticket.

If python < 2.6 is no longer interesting, can we remove it?

[blb@…]

It's definitely not interesting in the sense that upstream isn't doing anything with < 2.6 these days (including good 64bit support, hence < 2.6 having issues on 10.6). Until 2.7, 2.6 should be the best python for compatibility since it doesn't drop anything like py3k does.

I'm definitely all for removing all the old pythons once we can move things to 2.6 and/or 3.1.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

A quick run of port search py25 yields 287 ports, while port search py26 yields only 214. Also running "port echo depends:python25 | wc -l" yields 317. So there still is a long way to go before we should remove python25.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

And while 317 - 287 = 30 there is probably a fairly sizable numbers of ports that only depend on py25-* ports.

[akitada@…]

looks ok to me. closing.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

python24 +universal (x86_64/i386) still fails with the same error originally reported​, so I don't accept a resolution of "worksforme". (If it really does work for you, please post your complete build log so I can compare it with mine.)

[bgrupe27]

Cc Me!

[akitada@…]

oops, I missed that +universal in my test.

[gilles.lenfant@…]

I should have read this before upgrading to snow leopard. Maintaining apps that run on Python 2.4 like Zope 2.10.x / Plone 3.x can't run even with pain with Python != 2.4.x.

Now I've got to uninstall snow leopard and go back to leopard. Or install Ubuntu in a virtualbox.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to gilles.lenfant@…:

I should have read this before upgrading to snow leopard. Maintaining apps that run on Python 2.4 like Zope 2.10.x / Plone 3.x can't run even with pain with Python != 2.4.x.

Now I've got to uninstall snow leopard and go back to leopard. Or install Ubuntu in a virtualbox.

This ticket is about problems installing python24 on Snow Leopard with the universal variant. python24 installs fine on Snow Leopard without the universal variant, so consider using that.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

This is exactly the same problem as #21248; so let's just have that cover both python24 and python25.