Hi, everyone. I think we've reached the point where we should start discussing switching the defaults to Python 3.6. I would like to gather your opinion the following ideas.
Firstly, I'd like to do two changes simultaneously to reduce --newuse rebuilds: a. switching from CPython 3.5 to 3.6, b. disabling CPython 3.4. I'm thinking of a soft deadline on 2018-06-01, i.e. giving developers a full month to prepare. If things don't go well, we can always postpone it. According to my lists, we only have 6 packages relying on py3.4 right now [1] and no pending stabilizations for that. I will report bugs for those packages today. The list for 3.5->3.6 migration is longer [2]. However, it seems that many of those packages are rather isolated [3] and apparently unmaintained. Apparently the biggest targets are OpenStack and Flask. It's all doable. What do you think? [1]:https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/gpyutils/34-to-35.txt [2]:https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/gpyutils/35-to-36.txt [3]:https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/gpyutils/35-to-36.svg -- Best regards, Michał Górny
