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On Wed, 2019-11-13 at 22:16 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> I'd like to share my frustration at the state of Python in general, |
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> and Python packages in Gentoo. So I'd like to 'bootstrap' python3_8 -- |
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> that is, add it to the most common dependency, dev-python/setuptools. |
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> Simple thing, right? |
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Well, it turned out that things are worse than I anticipated. |
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I expected *some* minor test breakage. What we have instead is packages |
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being so broken that they break a lot of other packages. |
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So I went with plan B instead: I'll do as much testing locally |
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as possible, and add py3.8 when I manage to get the tests on the package |
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in question working, independently of the testing of all deep test deps. |
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This will mean that some packages will have tests disabled temporarily |
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for end users. |
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This means we've got dev-python/setuptools with py3.8 now, and we can |
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start slowly testing everything. As the depgraph grows, we'll be able |
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to reenable tests everywhere. |
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I will also probably start removing either complete py2 support, or some |
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of its features (e.g. docs) whenever it causes trouble. Given that both |
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dev-python/sphinx (primary doc building tool) and dev-python/pytest (one |
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of the most common test runners) no longer support py2, we're in a big |
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mess. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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