On 17. 06. 19 21:41, Ben Cotton wrote:
Thanks for bringing this up, Miro.
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 3:03 PM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> - there are ~200 build failures that block this, tracked on [bugzilla]
I did a spot check of a few of the BZs and it looks like some of those
build failures are unrelated to Python 3.8 but are due to other
dependencies. Do you have a good sense of how many of the failures are
due to Python 3.8 and how many are coincidental?
I'd say around 20-30 % are coincidental.
> Benefits:
> - we would not be stressed by the immediate mass rebuild deadline
> - we would not need to care about ABI incompatibilities between beta releases,
> because the last beta should be out when we start
>
> Negatives:
> - the users would get 3.8 as the main python3 about 6 months later, but they
> already have Python 3.8 interpreter in Fedora to develop on
>
From my perspective, it's worth waiting until F32 to avoid the
potential for important changes in a key package. I don't see anything
in the upstream feature set[1] that would justify the risk we'd be
subjecting ourselves (particularly the QA team) to.
[1]
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0569/#features-for-3-8
Neither do we.
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