Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 16:28:50 -0400 From: Robert Simmons <rsimmons0@gmail.com> To: Melvyn Sopacua <melvyn@magemana.nl> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, python@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports that don't actually support Python 3.x Message-ID: <CA%2BQLa9BJ4XmgUqidwZCaTN77ie7PGqVLrz_JW5yXYzzEimrz5w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1407062139390.2458@fire.magemana.nl> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1407062139390.2458@fire.magemana.nl>
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Beautiful Soup 3.x is Python 2.x only. From the website: "Beautiful Soup 3 works only under Python 2.x." http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Melvyn Sopacua <melvyn@magemana.nl> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm coming accross a few ports that are in the tree as we speak, that do > not actually install correctly with Python 3.x but aren't marked as 2.7 > only. > > There seems to be 2 cases: > 1. incompatibility in setup.py or related, thus failing in configure > 2. incompatibility in the code itself, thus failing in byte_compile > > The ones in 2 fail with PYDISTUTILS_AUTOPLIST in install, because the > files cannot be compiled and thus are missing when using the plist. > > I've got a few in PRs, few in the queue to become PR's, but perhaps a > broader effort is needed? I'm willing to help, if an exp-run or > something similar would generate a list. > > PS: A common error is: `except Exception, var:`. This can probably be > fixed with a REINPLACE_CMD that can be standardized, but so far, > bringing the port up-to-date with upstream fixes the problem (notable > exception being www/py-beautifulsoup32). > > -- > Melvyn > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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