Re: [gentoo-python] Re: [RFC] Timeline for Python 3.6 adoption

[Michał Górny]

W dniu pią, 27.04.2018 o godzinie 17∶56 -0700, użytkownik Patrick McLean
napisał:
> On 2018-04-27 09:05 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 9:03 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> > >
> > > Firstly, I'd like to do two changes simultaneously to reduce --newuse
> > > rebuilds:
> > >
> > > a. switching from CPython 3.5 to 3.6,
> > >
> > > b. disabling CPython 3.4.
>
> I assume you mean remove from the default PYTHON_TARGETS, not disable it
> completely? I would wait until after python 3.4 is no longer getting
> updates before removing it from the eclass and the tree.

I meant disabling it completely.  The default is 3.5 for a long time
already, and there is no reason to expect people to go back and test
their packages against 3.4.  The plan was to support only one Python 3.x
release behind current stable.

>
> > >
> > > I'm thinking of a soft deadline on 2018-06-01, i.e. giving developers
> > > a full month to prepare.  If things don't go well, we can always
> > > postpone it.
> > >
> > > According to my lists, we only have 6 packages relying on py3.4 right
> > > now [1] and no pending stabilizations for that.  I will report bugs for
> > > those packages today.
> > >
> > > The list for 3.5->3.6 migration is longer [2].  However, it seems that
> > > many of those packages are rather isolated [3] and apparently
> > > unmaintained.  Apparently the biggest targets are OpenStack
> > > and Flask.  It's all doable.
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> >
> > June 1 seems a little optimistic to me, but as you said we can push it
> > out if needed.
> >
> > This plan makes sense to me.
> >
>
>

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Best regards,
Michał Górny