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On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 2:29 AM, <nado@××××××××××.be> wrote: |
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> April 25, 2018 8:56 AM, "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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>> W dniu śro, 18.04.2018 o godzinie 08∶58 -0700, użytkownik Zac Medico |
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>> napisał: |
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>> Removing support for Python 2.7 is going to be a major drawback for our |
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>> users. I am not even going to consider those who intentionally reduce |
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>> their systems to 2.7 only for one reason or another. However, 2.7 has |
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>> been the Gentoo's 'LTS' so far -- different versions of Python 3 come |
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>> and go but 2.7 was there for a very long time to ease the transition. |
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>> Only recently one of the developers had to solve hard upgrade conflicts |
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>> and the simplest way of doing that was to unmerge Python 3 and use |
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>> Python 2.7 to install a new version. |
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> I think that workaround is even more common when you have to update some really old install. |
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> I've experienced it two times with Gentoo over the last 5 years, first time was my fault, I messed |
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> up my system, and the other is for serously outdated scaleway images [1]. |
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> It happens and I agree on keeping 2.7 support for a bit longer. |
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>> With EAPI 7 approaching in days (and the implementation going to |
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>> probably have some inevitable bugs), switching supported Python |
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>> implementation (or doing any major refactorings, to say) is a very bad |
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>> idea. This is going to once again cause a horrible backwards |
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>> compatibility problem loop where people wouldn't be able to use EAPI 7 |
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>> because they would need to provide means to upgrade Python and its |
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>> dependencies first, in order to be able to upgrade Portage. |
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> I agree with this, I'd like to see changes coming nicely separated, not in a bunch and be left |
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> determining why I can't upgrade my old system anymore. |
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I might have misread this, but isn't it policy that Gentoo doesn't |
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support upgrades of systems more than a year old? |
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I think it was said that if you go a year without updating, you aren't |
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supported anymore and you need to just do a fresh install. |
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Does anyone have any commentary on this? Even to tell me that I'm mistaken? |
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> [1] https://github.com/scaleway/image-gentoo/issues/8#issuecomment-343210153 |
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> -- |
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> Corentin “Nado” Pazdera |
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