Re: Python 2.6 ?

[Jason Tishler <jason at tishler dot net>]

Yaakov,

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 05:23:46PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On 27/01/2010 13:34, Jason Tishler wrote:
> >I prefer the above approach.  However, what happens if 2.7 is
> >released during the 2.5 to 2.6 transition period?
> 
> 2.7 is currently holding at alpha2.  The 2.7 release schedule[1] shows
> that 2.7 final is due in June, and even if it's on time, it could be
> months before most software is ready for 2.7 and even longer before
> anything actually *needs* it.  I doubt most distros will make it the
> default 2.x version until 2011, so I still think 2.6 is the way to go
> right now.
> [snip]

I've started to make some progress in releasing Python 2.5 and 2.6 for
Cygwin 1.7.  I've decided to switch to cygport, so I was hoping you
could review my work and answer another question.  Note I used your
python-2.5.4-10.cygport from cygwin-ports SVN as my starting point.

The attached patches are my changes:

1. I removed your 2.5.2-tkinter-x11.patch and added a 2.5.5-tkinter.patch,
so _tkinter builds and runs against the Win32 tcltk instead of the X11
version.  FWIW, this is consistent with the _tkinter module that has
been in the standard Cygwin distribution for years.

2. I added 2.5.5-curses.patch and CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/ncurses, so
the _curses and _curses_panel modules will build cleanly against the
latest ncurses.

3. I changed "requires" in tkinter.hint as per #1 above.

Are you OK with these changes?

I would like to release 2.5.5 first and then 2.6.4.  Unfortunately,
there is no HTML documentation specifically for 2.5.5, so I guess I
should use the documentation from 2.5.4.  Do you know of any clever ways
to mix 2.5.5 source and 2.5.4 documentation without having to hardcode
versions in the cygport file?

Thanks,
Jason

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