svn commit: r43499 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Tue Jan 14 13:06:45 UTC 2014

Author: pgj
Date: Tue Jan 14 13:06:44 2014
New Revision: 43499
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43499

Log:
  - Add a 2013Q4 report for the Python ports
  
  Submitted by:	mva

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml
==============================================================================

--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml	Tue Jan 14 12:41:08 2014	(r43498)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml	Tue Jan 14 13:06:44 2014	(r43499)
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
     <!-- XXX: Keep updating the number of entries -->
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!  This report
-      contains 12 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+      contains 13 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
 
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering between January and
       March 2014 is April 7th, 2014.</p>
@@ -661,4 +661,71 @@
 	Linux"</tt>.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='ports'>
+    <title>&os; Python Ports</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>&os; Python Team</name>
+	<email>python at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Python">The &os; Python Team page</url>
+      <url href="irc://freebsd-python@irc.freenode.net">IRC channel</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>Python is a widely used general-purpose, high-level programming
+	language.  For many operating systems, Python is a standard
+	component; it ships with &os; as well.  A lot of progress has
+	been made around the &os; Python ports in the last quarter.</p>
+
+      <p>The <tt>devel/py-distribute</tt> port has been replaced by the
+	refreshed <tt>devel/py-setuptools</tt> port, which comes with a
+	lot of features that simplify the ways of installing Python
+	packages.  The change also led us to install everything through
+	Setuptools now, which resembles a PyIP a bit and allows us to
+	perform some major cleanup on the distutils installation
+	behaviour.</p>
+
+      <p>The implicit <tt>lang/python</tt> build and run-time dependency
+	was removed from the ports infrastructure.  Every port now
+	depends on a specific Python version or on the
+	<tt>lang/python</tt> metaport.  This prevents compatibility
+	issues for ports that depend on Python 2.x OR
+	Python 3.x exclusively, but use the <tt>python</tt>
+	command, which might point to a version of incompatible user
+	choice.</p>
+
+      <p>The <tt>lang/python27</tt> port was updated to version 2.7.6,
+	and the <tt>lang/python33</tt> port was updated to version
+	3.3.3, and the <tt>lang/pypy</tt> port was updated to version
+	2.2.1</p>
+
+      <p>We are currently working on the necessary infrastructure quirks
+	to support different Python versions for the same port.  Most of
+	the work has been done and needs to be tested before it can be
+	integrated.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Develop a high-level and lightweight Python Ports Policy.</task>
+
+      <task>Add support for granular dependencies (for example
+	<tt>>=1.0</tt> or <tt><2.0</tt>).</task>
+
+      <task>Look at what adding PyPI (the Python Package Index) support
+	looks like.</task>
+
+      <task>Convert all <tt>USE_PYDISTUTILS=easy_install</tt> entries to
+	<tt>yes</tt> and remove the use of <tt>easy_install</tt> from
+	the ports infrastructure.</task>
+
+      <task>More tasks can be found on the team's wiki page (see
+	links).</task>
+      </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
