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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-python <gentoo-python@l.g.o>
Cc: python <python@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-python] [RFC] Timeline for Python 3.6 adoption
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 05:23:49
Message-Id: 1526361823.1841.1.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-python] [RFC] Timeline for Python 3.6 adoption by "Michał Górny"
1 W dniu pią, 27.04.2018 o godzinie 15∶03 +0200, użytkownik Michał Górny
2 napisał:
3 > Hi, everyone.
4 >
5 > I think we've reached the point where we should start discussing
6 > switching the defaults to Python 3.6. I would like to gather your
7 > opinion the following ideas.
8 >
9 > Firstly, I'd like to do two changes simultaneously to reduce --newuse
10 > rebuilds:
11 >
12 > a. switching from CPython 3.5 to 3.6,
13 >
14 > b. disabling CPython 3.4.
15 >
16 > I'm thinking of a soft deadline on 2018-06-01, i.e. giving developers
17 > a full month to prepare. If things don't go well, we can always
18 > postpone it.
19 >
20 > According to my lists, we only have 6 packages relying on py3.4 right
21 > now [1] and no pending stabilizations for that. I will report bugs for
22 > those packages today.
23 >
24 > The list for 3.5->3.6 migration is longer [2]. However, it seems that
25 > many of those packages are rather isolated [3] and apparently
26 > unmaintained. Apparently the biggest targets are OpenStack
27 > and Flask. It's all doable.
28 >
29 > What do you think?
30 >
31 > [1]:https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/gpyutils/34-to-35.txt
32 > [2]:https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/gpyutils/35-to-36.txt
33 > [3]:https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/gpyutils/35-to-36.svg
34 >
35
36 Since I've failed to announce it earlier, the dates are going to shift
37 a bit. I'll also prepare a news item.
38
39 --
40 Best regards,
41 Michał Górny