[bind10-dev] FreeBSD port for BIND 10 available for testing

[Dan Mahoney]

On Fri, 30 Sep 2011, Michael Sinatra wrote:

> > On the botan site, it claims that you can in fact run the configure script
> > with python's 2to3 script -- I would suggest filing a ports bug to have
> > them do this if the system python is "3", instead of pulling in python2.
> > This is probably also a trivial patch for someone more familiar with
> > makefiles than myself, to submit with the PR.
> 
> I fiddled with the 2to3 script for a while a couple months ago trying to build
> botan under python 3.1 and gave up.  I should probably try again because it is
> supposed to work.

Which should also be reported upstream.

> There's enough other stuff in the ports collection that relies on python 2
> that a FreeBSD system with a reasonable set of packages will probably need
> python 2 anyway.  It's not a big deal for me.  That said, it would be nice if
> it could all work under python 3, but it may be a while for that to happen,
> given the 2 vs. 3 compatibility issues.

Botan was the only thing that required python 2.x for me (for a VM to 
*only* run bind10).  And the fact that botan only requires this to run its 
CONFIGURE script strikes me as ridiciulous.  Was #!/bin/sh so hard for the 
Botan developers to master?

-Dan