Re: [EPEL-devel] Re: Python 3.7 in EPEL?
On 11. 12. 19 17:01, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 at 20:24, Miro Hrončok
<mhroncok(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hey EPEL people.
>
> We got a request to branch Python 3.7 foe EPEL 7:
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> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1781940
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> Are there volunteers to make that effort? And if so, should this be done in EPEL
> 8 first? And what about Python 3.8 in EPEL 7?
>
> So many questions. So little time.
>
> That said. If somebody want this, we (Python Maint) can help coordinate, but we
> don't have the manpower to really maintain various Python versions in EPEL for
> next X years.
>
Honestly after all the work and pain it got to get python36 in
EPEL7... I would prefer not to try that again.
Note that there is a big difference between maintaining a stack of various
python37-foo packages and maintaining the interpreter only.
I think maintaining the
version that is the base in RHEL-8 is going to be more than enough
headaches and trying to keep up with the python of the year is not
productive. I think that any volunteers should first make the versions
of python37/38 in COPR and see if they have the volunteers and time to
maintain it there.
That is true.
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