Triggered by another
thread I got curious and thought I better open a new one with a some of my observations:
(1) Missing dependency of 'openssl-0.9.8.tcz' for 'python-2.5.2.tcz' (I know it's "old news", but it might be better to collect all of those in one place here).
(2) Missing dependency of 'openssl-0.9.8.tcz' for 'python-2.5.2-minimal.tcz'
(3) In 'python-2.5.2-minimal.tcz.info' a reference is made to 'edna.tcz', but a statement in 'edna.tcz.info' reads: "python-2.5.2-minimal does not work at the moment"
So this extension is probably not used by anything.
I'm a great fan of minimalistic requirements. Whenever possible I try to use 'microperl-5.8.9.tcz' instead of the "full blown" version. I now wonder if it would be feasible to create a "micro Python 2.6" extension. I believe I pretty much "know my way around" Perl, but have not really used Python much at all. I'm therefore unlikely to kick things off, but I'm willing to test to see if other extensions (e.g. mercurial) would work with such a stripped down version. Are there any takers for such an idea?