-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Coghlan [mailto:ncoghlan@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 05:42
To: Fedora Python SIG
Cc: EPEL Development List
Subject: Re: [EPEL-devel] Which python3 versions to package for EPEL7?
On 6 January 2016 at 13:48, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Despite the confusion, my feeling is that we want the newer versions.
> People who want to run python3 are willing to live more on the bleeding
> edge. What I've observed is that they want newer versions of libraries
as
> well. Building packages that nobody wants to use because they are too
old
> isn't that helpful to those who want to use the system packages for
their
> development. For us packagers, getting applications to run on python3
> frequently needs newer versions of supporting libraries due to bugfixes
for
> python3 going into those libraries. Attempting to pin the python34
versions
> to the versions that ship with RHEL or in EPEL as the python2 version
will
> quickly become a hindrance to us in those efforts as well.
+1 from me for adopting newer package versions as baseline in the
python3X stacks.
Ditto, though none of my packaging is public :( so I only get +0.1 at most.
And while I'm here, thanks to all on this effort!!! I was an early adopter of Py3 and
having recently started using EPEL I was a little sad at the dearth of Py3 there.
It's so hard to wander off the Fedora path, everything seems so ... umm long ago.
--
John Florian