On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 at 11:44, Miro Hrončok <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 11. 12. 19 17:01, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 at 20:24, Miro Hrončok <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hey EPEL people. > >> > >> We got a request to branch Python 3.7 foe EPEL 7: > >> > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1781940 > >> > >> 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. >
The issue is that most 'users' of the language do not see a difference between the 2. When they say python3x they mean python3x+whatever-bits-i-needed. So as soon as you put in the interpreter.. then comes the 'why isn't python37-x there? etc etc' > > 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. > > -- > Miro Hrončok > -- > Phone: +420777974800 > IRC: mhroncok > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]
