Subject: Re: mixminion and python
To: None <jan.m.danielsson@gmail.com>
From: Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 10/05/2006 21:17:05
In message <4524F5FA.5000700@gmail.com>
on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:09:30 +0200,
Jan Danielsson <jan.m.danielsson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought I'd give mixminion a whirl. When I run "make install",
> there's a screen which tells me which variables will affect the build.
> Among them is the PYTHON_VERSION_DEFAULT (or was it the other way
> around?) variable, which is set to "24".
security/mixminion/Makefile has:
PYTHON_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED= 23 22 21
> But just afterwards, it starts building python23 -- which I don't
> want it to do unless there are *very* good reasons for having two python
> versions installed.
>
> Is this a snafu, or does mixminion really require python23?
In mixminion-0.0.8alpha2's README-0.0.8alpha2:
NEW SINCE MIXMINION 0.0.7.1:
...
- Numerous bugfixes:
- Implement DESTDIR correctly.
- Do not crash when run with python 2.4
So, mixminion-0.0.7.1 wouldn't run with Python 2.4.
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Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net>