Re: python25 removed

[John Marino <netbsd%marino.st@localhost>]

On 10/4/2012 14:46, OBATA Akio wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:12:34 +0900, John Marino <netbsd%marino.st@localhost> 
> wrote:
>
> > After removing the PYTHON_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED line of their makefiles, I
> > was able to build sysutils/salt and textproc/py-pdf-parser with python
> > 2.7 with no apparent issues. Those two package akefiles should be
> > updated.
>
> For py-pdf-parser, you can find comments that it will not worked well
> with 2.7
> in its HOMEPAGE.
> It means other packages potentially have same issue
> (build&install fine, but not worked as expected).
>
> > I think we should only have two versions of python in pkgsrc (2.x and
> > 3.x) but I'll leave 3.1 alone for another day. :)
>
> 3.1 is the last version not following PEP 3147.
> Before removing it, PLIST handling should be improved
> (for example, print-PLIST).


The pkgsrc version is listed at 3.7.
The latest version on that website is 3.9.  I downloaded version 3.9 and 
I found this at at the top of the program:

        __description__ = 'pdf-parser, use it to parse a PDF document'
        __author__ = 'Didier Stevens'
        __version__ = '0.3.9'
        __date__ = '2012/03/11'
        __minimum_python_version__ = (2, 5, 1)
        __maximum_python_version__ = (3, 1, 2)

It appears to me that the author added 2.7 (and 3.1) support a few 
months ago as he implied he would do in the comments.  With luck, this 
package only needs to be upgraded.

John