On Dec 11, 2019, at 12:50, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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'
IIRC, that is exactly what happened with the 3.4 => 3.6 transition. What made that
particularly painful for me was that the 3.4 versions of many of the dependent bits
suddenly went away, to be *replaced* (rather than augmented) by 3.6 ones. This caused
major disruption in a number of projects that I maintain that had formal dependencies on
the 3.4 bits.
Will this same thing happen to the 3.6 bits if we add 3.7? If so, then I would strongly
oppose making the addition. Having packages spontaneously disappear seems to contradict
the whole point of having an ‘Enterprise’ distro.
Cheers!
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