Fwd: [pypy-dev] Dropping py3.8, working on py3.10
Considering this, I intent to retire pypy3.8 from Fedora 38+ before the beta
freeze.
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Subject: [pypy-dev] Dropping py3.8, working on py3.10
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 12:01:58 +0200
From: Matti Picus <matti.picus(a)gmail.com>
To: pypy-dev(a)python.org <pypy-dev(a)python.org>
We have begun work on py3.10. I changed the buildbot configuration to build
default (py2.7), py3.9, py3.10 instead of default (py2.7), py3.8, py3.9. Builds
for py3.8 (or any branch) can be kicked off manually. Unless there is
significant push-back, or some latent urgent bug appears on py3.8, I do not
plan on making another py3.8 release.
Help is always welcome, the py3.10 work is at a stage of "death by 1000 paper
cuts" where there are many small details that need to be changed. One thing
people could do is to peruse the lib-python failures (testing py3.10 on the
upstream stdlib tests) for obvious [2] problems. You can see the log file by
looking at the latest builds [0] -> clicking on the pypy-c-jit-linux-x86-64
link -> shell_16 lib-python test failed -> stdio. There are some hints for
parsing that output on the wiki [1].
Matti
[0] https://buildbot.pypy.org/summary?branch=py3.10
[1] https://foss.heptapod.net/pypy/pypy/-/wikis/Analysing-lib-python-errors
[2] what may be obvious to you may be gibberish to someone else, which is why
we need everyone's expertise