What does py25 mean?

[Lars Eighner]

On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Florent Thoumie wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Lars Eighner<portsuser at larseighner.com> wrote:
>> What does py25 mean?
>>
>> I can't seem to upgrade about 40 ports (the old versions of which now seem
>> to be broken) evidently because the build of
>>
>> py25-gtk-2.13.1 fails with the message
>>
>>    py25-cairo-1.8.6 needs Python 2.6 at least. But you specified 2.5.
>>
>> Well, of *I* did not specify 2.5.
>>
>> But howcome something called py25-cairo needs Python 2.6?  What does that
>> py25 on the front mean?   Doesn't it mean python 2.5?  If it doesn't mean
>> that, what does it mean?  If it does mean that, then howcome it needs python
>> 2.6?
>
> Looking at graphics/py-cairo history:
>
> June 17: was updated to 1.8.4
> June 19: required python 2.6+
>
> You most likely installed it before that, and probably before python
> 2.6 was set as the default version. The message is a bit misleading
> but as somebody else said, the py25- prefix in that case comes from
> your installed version of python.
>
> Check entry 20090608 about the python upgrade in /usr/ports/UPDATING.

Yes I did that.  Twice.  I am now doing it a third time.

In the meantime I deinstalled py-cairo and make installed it and it thinks
its name is not py26-cairo

but x11-toolkits/py-gtk2 won't build because it thinks it need py25-cairo
which in turn needs python26.  But the pkg db doesn't have any py25-cairo
because it has py26-cairo which was built with python26.

It is really hard to tell whether python is more screwy than qt.  I'd say it
is pretty much a tie.

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