Re: what to do about python-kjbuckets

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Donovan Baarda writes:
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 05:23:30PM +0100, Joel Rosdahl wrote:
> [...]
> > But there is a problem: The current (from 1997) upstream version[1]
> > doesn't work with Python >= 2.0.  Now, Berthold Hoellmann, Oleg
> > Broytmann and others have ported[2] kjbuckets to work with newer
> > Pythons, but it's not as official as one could hope.  For instance,
> > the version number is still the same as the old upstream version
> > (2.2).
> > 
> > I'm not sure what to do.  Here's a couple of solutions:
> [...]
> > 2) Only make a python1.5-kjbuckets package.  (Nah.)
> [...]
> > 5) Use date in version, i.e. 2.2.port.20011104 or similar.  (Best
> >    solution I can come up with.)
> [...]
> 
> I would hope that you also make a python1.5-kjbuckets so that older
> python1.5 programs that used it can still use it. You them also make a
> python2.2-kjbuckets (2.2.0-port.20011104) package if you want something
> newer.

do we really need 1.5 support? gadfly was just orphaned, someone would
have to look at routeplanner. Can these packages use 2.1?

     Matthias