Re: Python 2 support in GNOME build tools

2018-07-15 Thread Christoph Reiter via desktop-devel-list
On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 3:25 PM, Nicolas Dufresne wrote: > Stable distribution shouldn't block software from going forward with > Python 3. Simply because stable OS won't update to whatever we release > next, unless it's bug/security fixes. I agree in general, but as I noted at the end of my

Re: Python 2 support in GNOME build tools

2018-07-15 Thread Nicolas Dufresne
Le dimanche 15 juillet 2018 à 12:54 +0200, Christoph Reiter via desktop-devel-list a écrit : > > My understanding is that the main blocker for using Python 3 is > > that RHEL/CentOS 7 doesn't have it built-in, only as part of a secondary > > "software collection"? > > Yeah, that's also what I

Re: Python 2 support in GNOME build tools

2018-07-15 Thread Christoph Reiter via desktop-devel-list
> Slow-releasing/stable/"enterprise" distributions like RHEL, Debian, > Ubuntu LTS and SLED are the usual sticking point for dependency versions. > > My understanding is that the main blocker for using Python 3 is > that RHEL/CentOS 7 doesn't have it built-in, only as part of a secondary >