Re: [gentoo-user] Python3.4 to python3.5 in ebuilds

[Alec Ten Harmsel]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 04:07:03PM +0200, Stanislav Ch. Nikolov wrote:
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> It seems like 3.4 and 3.5 are 100% compatible, and most ebuilds
> involving python in some way tolerate them both:
>     (any-of ( python_targets_python3_3 python_targets_python3_4 python_targets_python3_5))
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> Yet there are some that are still unhappy with 3.5. This makes me
> really annoyed and I was wondering if it was possible to write a
> simple script to add python_targets_python3_5 where needed. Would this
> break anything, and if no, why can't the maintainers or some
> portage-tree admin do it?

It probably will not break a whole lot, but python 3.5 is still
relatively new and package maintainers are still catching up.

Alec