[i18n-discuss] Shall we use python2.6 as the default on next opensolaris release?

[Laszlo (Laca) Peter]

Hi Yong,

On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 13:51 +0800, Yong Sun wrote:
> Hi, Laca,
> 
> We are porting ibus (http://code.google.com/p/ibus/), the next 
> generation input method framework onto opensolaris, which requires 
> python2.6, gnome-python2.6, dbus-python2.6, and xdg-python2.6. I saw 
> these packages are available in opensolaris-dev repo, thanks for your 
> efforts of supporting python2.6!
> 
> And G11N team is planning to use ibus as the default IM platform on next 
> opensolaris release, which implies we need python2.6 being the default 
> in opensolaris liveCD or distribution. Do we have such a plan?

That depends on IPS moving to Python 2.6, possibly other
projects as well, but IPS is the most important one.
Not sure what their plans are, I suggest asking on
pkg-discuss.

Laca