Re: [Python-Dev] Python and Linux Standard Base

2018-06-27 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 27 June 2018 at 23:57, Charalampos Stratakis wrote: > From: "Antoine Pitrou" >> One question: who maintains the LSB? >> >> The fact that the Python portion was never updated may hint that nobody >> uses it... > > That could definitely be the case here. I stumbled upon that when checking >

Re: [Python-Dev] Python and Linux Standard Base

2018-06-27 Thread Charalampos Stratakis
- Original Message - > From: "Antoine Pitrou" > To: python-dev@python.org > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 3:42:53 PM > Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Python and Linux Standard Base > > On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 09:18:24 -0400 (EDT) > Charalampos Stratak

Re: [Python-Dev] Python and Linux Standard Base

2018-06-27 Thread David Mertz
The main wiki page was last touched at all in 2016. The mailing list in Jan 2018 had about 8 comments, none of them actually related to LSB. They stopped archiving the ML altogether in Feb 2018. I think it's safe to say the parrot is dead. On Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 9:50 AM Antoine Pitrou wrote: >

Re: [Python-Dev] Python and Linux Standard Base

2018-06-27 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 09:18:24 -0400 (EDT) Charalampos Stratakis wrote: > > My question is, if there is any incentive to try and ask for > modernization/amendment of the standards? > I really doubt that any linux distro at that point can be considered lsb > compliant at least from the > python

[Python-Dev] Python and Linux Standard Base

2018-06-27 Thread Charalampos Stratakis
LSB (Linux Standard Base) is a set of standards defined from the Linux Foundation for linux distributions [0][1] with the latest version (LSB 5.0) released on 3rd of June, 2015. Python is also mentioned there but the information is horribly outdated [2]. For example here are the necessary