On 01/15/2014 04:26 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 01/15/2014 12:16 AM, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote: >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> >> >> On 14 January 2014 09:57, Orion Poplawski <or...@cora.nwra.com >> <mailto:or...@cora.nwra.com>> wrote: >> >> It seems like it would be nice to have python 3 in EPEL 7. Anyone >> willing to >> maintain it there? >> >> It seems to build fine: >> >> http://copr-fe.cloud.fedoraproject.org/coprs/orion/Python3_EPEL7/builds/ >> >> >> Well a couple of other things would be needed beyond just maintenance: >> >> 1) Does providing python-3.4 mean that 3.4 will be the only python every >> provided by EPEL? >> 2) If it doesn't then how are upgrades from 3.4 to 3.5 to 3.6 going to be >> handled? >> >> -- >> Stephen J Smoogen. >> >> >> Well the problem is that once you provide a build for EPEL, you shouldn't >> really do major updates [1], so it seems we would be stuck with whatever we >> build for 10+ years. I don't like that very much. We could probably do >> python3.4, python3.5 etc, but that'd probably require some modifications to >> dependency generators, etc... I'm not going to stay in anyones way to do >> this, >> but I won't do it myself. >> >> Slavek. >> >> [1] >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies#A_major_version_update >> > > Well, quite frankly, I think anyone expecting 10 years of support for EPEL > packages is deluding themselves, some specific packages excepted. Users of > EPEL are probably best served by upgrading to newer versions of EL as soon as > practical. > > My recommendation would be to ship python 3.4 as a "normal" python3 package. > The python folks appear to be committed to providing 5 years of security fixes > for a release. This seems to be as long can be reasonably expected of EPEL. > > Perhaps as time goes by, it may make sense to package a later python3.X > version if people really want to. > >
This thread appears to have gone off on a lot of tangents. Getting back to the original questions: - Shall we build python 3.4 as python3 in EPEL7 when it is released? - Anyone willing to maintain it? - I see that 3.4.0 beta 2 is out, time to get it into rawhide at least? Thanks. -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane or...@nwra.com Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.nwra.com _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel
