| 1 |
On Wed, 2021-06-23 at 13:19 +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote: |
| 2 |
> Ühel kenal päeval, K, 23.06.2021 kell 11:56, kirjutas Michał Górny: |
| 3 |
> > > - python*|pypy3) |
| 4 |
> > > + python3.[5678]|pypy3) |
| 5 |
> > |
| 6 |
> > We don't really support < 3.8 anymore but I can update that while |
| 7 |
> > merging, I guess. |
| 8 |
> |
| 9 |
> Yeah, this is originating from the previous block having python3.[34], |
| 10 |
> so the changeset is making sure the 3.9 and 3.10 cases end up using the |
| 11 |
> added path, not about 3.5/3.6, for which the code path is kept the same |
| 12 |
> with this. |
| 13 |
> |
| 14 |
> I don't foresee myself working on making distutils cases work with this |
| 15 |
> anytime soon. Maybe we should file a bug on that. It's a bit surprising |
| 16 |
> this wasn't done there too upstream, I guess those who made this change |
| 17 |
> only cared about it for python itself and they are running compileall |
| 18 |
> manually over all the caches. |
| 19 |
> |
| 20 |
|
| 21 |
The problem roughly is that distutils is unmaintained for years, |
| 22 |
and upstream plans to remove it entirely in Python 3.12. If anyone's |
| 23 |
going to work on patches, setuptools is probably where it would need |
| 24 |
to land. But right now it's all a huge mess. |
| 25 |
|
| 26 |
-- |
| 27 |
Best regards, |
| 28 |
Michał Górny |
Archives