On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 at 11:44, Miro Hrončok <mhroncok(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 11. 12. 19 17:01, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 at 20:24, Miro Hrončok <mhroncok(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey EPEL people.
>>
>> We got a request to branch Python 3.7 foe EPEL 7:
>>
>>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1781940
>>
>> Are there volunteers to make that effort? And if so, should this be done in
EPEL
>> 8 first? And what about Python 3.8 in EPEL 7?
>>
>> So many questions. So little time.
>>
>> That said. If somebody want this, we (Python Maint) can help coordinate, but we
>> don't have the manpower to really maintain various Python versions in EPEL
for
>> next X years.
>>
>
> Honestly after all the work and pain it got to get python36 in
> EPEL7... I would prefer not to try that again.
Note that there is a big difference between maintaining a stack of various
python37-foo packages and maintaining the interpreter only.
The issue is that most 'users' of the language do not see a difference
between the 2. When they say python3x they mean
python3x+whatever-bits-i-needed. So as soon as you put in the
interpreter.. then comes the 'why isn't python37-x there? etc etc'
> I think maintaining the
> version that is the base in RHEL-8 is going to be more than enough
> headaches and trying to keep up with the python of the year is not
> productive. I think that any volunteers should first make the versions
> of python37/38 in COPR and see if they have the volunteers and time to
> maintain it there.
That is true.
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