Evil Geniuses For A Better Tomorrow

I am quite surprised at how out of date a lot of the macports python packages are.  I can’t think of a single reason why anyone would still be using python 2.4 instead of 2.5 (nothing was deprecated and I haven’t heard of a single package that worked in 2.4 but does not in 2.5) but the bulk of the python category is taken up with old 2.4 versions of various modules and packages.  I am chalking this one up to laziness and a lack of interest on someone’s part, because it has taken me only a couple of days to whip up around 30 local portfiles that upgrade various modules to 2.5 versions and also get the most recent version of the package in question.

I guess it is time to sign up as a maintainer and push some new portfiles into the repo.

Tags: mac, Python

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