On Dec 11, 2019, at 12:50, Stephen John Smoogen <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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'

IIRC, that is exactly what happened with the 3.4 => 3.6 transition. What made 
that particularly painful for me was that the 3.4 versions of many of the 
dependent bits suddenly went away, to be *replaced* (rather than augmented) by 
3.6 ones. This caused major disruption in a number of projects that I maintain 
that had formal dependencies on the 3.4 bits.

Will this same thing happen to the 3.6 bits if we add 3.7? If so, then I would 
strongly oppose making the addition. Having packages spontaneously disappear 
seems to contradict the whole point of having an ‘Enterprise’ distro.

Cheers!


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