Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Perspectives on improving (dis-hacking) python-single-r1

2019-11-24 Thread Michael 'veremitz' Everitt
On 24/11/19 16:06, Francesco Riosa wrote: > Since we are here ... > I'd still like to see some way to adopt latest python version if user > wants to. > One way it could work is that we add a "LATEST" to PYTHON_TARGETS that > would always build against best version of python. > To avoid

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Perspectives on improving (dis-hacking) python-single-r1

2019-11-24 Thread Francesco Riosa
Since we are here ... I'd still like to see some way to adopt latest python version if user wants to. One way it could work is that we add a "LATEST" to PYTHON_TARGETS that would always build against best version of python. To avoid complications if a new version of python is emerged together with

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Perspectives on improving (dis-hacking) python-single-r1

2019-11-23 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, Some aspects of the current design of python-single-r1 are gross hack. I'd like to discuss potential alternatives to them. Preamble For the purpose of this mail, let's establish two terms. 'Single' will refer to packages allowing the user to select 1 out of N supported Python