Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Splitting dev-lang/python into per-slot packages, starting with 3.14

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, 2024-10-12 at 17:30 +0500, Anna (cybertailor) Vyalkova wrote:
> On 2024-10-12 11:13, Michał Górny wrote:
> > On Sat, 2024-10-12 at 10:50 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> > > On 12/10/24 10:12, Michał Górny wrote:
> > > > Comments?
> > > > 
> > > I'm afraid it would lead to way too many packages and I'm not sure the
> > > overall experience would be an improvement.
> > 
> > 5 are too many?
> 
> Absolutely no, and your proposal seems to solve the shortcomings of 
> slotting given the limitations. Just Python is not the only language 
> with multiple simultaneous versions supported in Gentoo (Ruby comes to 
> mind first), and it opens a slippery slope.

I still find this weak, compared to ~20k packages in Gentoo right now.

> Is there anything that makes Python unique enough to stand out from 
> conventions estabilished for packaging other languages? Or would it 
> essentially lead to a new policy?

Python pretty much sets the quality standards for Gentoo these days.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny


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