Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] python-utils-r1.eclass: _python_impl_supported, forward compat

[Michał Górny]

On wto, 2017-05-02 at 11:49 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
> Add forward compatibility up to python3.9. It's helpful to allow some
> flexibility in ebuild PYTHON_COMPAT settings, for third-party
> repositories that may be used with multiple snapshots of the gentoo
> repository.
> ---
>  eclass/python-utils-r1.eclass | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/eclass/python-utils-r1.eclass b/eclass/python-utils-r1.eclass
> index 66a359e..997a994 100644
> --- a/eclass/python-utils-r1.eclass
> +++ b/eclass/python-utils-r1.eclass
> @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ _python_impl_supported() {
>  		python2_7|python3_[456]|jython2_7)
>  			return 0
>  			;;
> -		pypy1_[89]|pypy2_0|python2_[56]|python3_[123])
> +		pypy1_[89]|pypy2_0|python2_[56]|python3_[123789])
>  			return 1
>  			;;
>  		pypy|pypy3)

Sounds like a very bad idea. How can you even think of adding
an implementation if you don't know what the eclass API for it would be?

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Best regards,
Michał Górny