On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 11:20:26 +0100
n952162 <[email protected]> wrote:
> /Is there a fundamental goals issue here, when there's so much
> incompatibility between python3_{6,7,8,9}? Do packages really need
> to care? Are these versions so fundamentally different from each
> other, and programmers rely on those differences? Or, is this
> somebody's orderliness tic?/
This bothers me too as a developer. I have created and maintain small
python program. The program itself requires almost no maintenance and
as far as I remember it has been compatible with any Python 3 version
since 3.2. The only thing that needs constant maintenance is the ebuild
where a list of exact Python versions have to be updated with each new
major Python release:
PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6..9} )
It is not even possible to "outsmart" it with 'python3_{6..255}' or
something similar to be future proof.
I do not know the reasoning for such handling of Python in Gentoo.
Maybe I am oversimplifying it but I'd expect that specifying
dependencies to Python will be simple as any other. Something like:
RDEPEND=">=dev-lang/python:3"
Why this is not the standard and recommended way?
Robert
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