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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
Cc: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>, pr@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item for python3.4 defaults
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 22:17:06
Message-Id: 20141115231643.5560c848@pomiot.lan
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item for python3.4 defaults by Mike Gilbert
1 Dnia 2014-11-15, o godz. 17:02:18
2 Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> napisał(a):
3
4 > Title: Python 3.4 enabled by default
5 > Author: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
6 > Content-Type: text/plain
7 > Posted: 2014-11-15
8 > Revision: 1
9 > News-Item-Format: 1.0
10 >
11 > Python 3.4 will be enabled by default soon, replacing Python 3.3 as the
12 > default Python 3 interpreter.
13
14 s/soon/on YYYY-MM-DD/ :). You'll fill in the date when you commit it.
15
16 > PYTHON_TARGETS will be adjusted to contain python2_7 and python3_4.
17 > PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET will remain set to python2_7 for the time being.
18
19 I would emphasize that this is about 'the default values'.
20
21 > If you have PYTHON_TARGETS set in make.conf, that setting will still be
22 > respected. This change only affects the profile defaults.
23
24 I think you could suggest that the user may want to adjust it manually.
25
26 > At the same time, support for Python 3.2 will be removed from the
27 > python-r1 family of eclasses. This version no longer receives regular
28 > bug fixes, and is currently only receiving security updates.
29 >
30 > Once the changes have taken place, a world update should take care of
31 > reinstalling any python libraries you have installed. You should also
32 > switch your default python3 interperter using eselect python, and
33 > possibly run python-updater if you have some older python libraries
34 > installed.
35
36 You may want to mention --changed-use. Also, I don't think
37 python-updater is relevant here since python.eclass doesn't support
38 3.4.
39
40 --
41 Best regards,
42 Michał Górny

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