----- Original Message ----- > Hi all, > I know I've been promising this for quite some time to several people, so I > finally managed to put together a proposal for packaging Python 3 in EPEL 7 > (it'd also scale to EPEL 6 for that matter). > I've created a wiki page [1] with the proposal and I'd like to hear comments > and thoughts on it. There are some TODOs and variants in few places - I'd > like to hear your opinions on these, or perhaps suggestions on better > approaches. > I'll create new documents with the updated proposal at some points during the > discussion, so that people can easily see where the proposal is going > without having to compare wiki revisions. > > Is there any other list/interested parties that should be put in CC of this > mail? If so, please feel free to respond and do that yourself. > > Thanks! > > -- > Regards, > Slavek Kabrda > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bkabrda/EPEL7_Python3
Let's reiterate: - Nick Coghlan posted an interesting proposal to the discussion section in my proposal (my reaction is in the blue frame) [1]. I'd appreciate more comments on this. - From the feedback gathered on this list: - We should have /usr/bin/python3 pointing to a python3X build. The question is which one this will be during transitional periods between 3X and 3X+1. My thinking is that we should point /usr/bin/python3 to 3X+1 at the time of retiring 3X (IMO there is no ideal time to do that, so it's not really important). - As for dist-git possibilities, Orion would prefer to use current dist-git repos with epel-7 branches. It's not my preference (for reasons mentioned in the proposal), but I'm not against it if that is what others wish. - Stephen Smoogen mentioned that the transitional period during which python3X and python3X+1 exist can be anywhere from 6 weeks to 2 months. I'm starting to think that we should only specify the minimum time for which 3X will be kept. So my proposal would be sth. like "3X is kept for minimum of 6 weeks in parallel to 3X+1. After this, it is retired as soon as all stakeholders have rebuilt against 3X+1." (keeping it a bit vague is a good thing here, I think) - As I noted in one of my emails, we don't have to worry about conflicts with RHSCL. New collections from RHSCL will be named with "rh-" prefix and thus won't conflict with python3X stacks. Since it doesn't seem that there was anything very problematic, let's discuss the points mentioned above after which I should be able to finalize the proposal and make it official (and then we could all get to building :)). I'm quite sure that we'll still hit some technical issues, e.g. macro naming for parallel stacks, but I believe we can discuss and solve these on the way. Thanks. -- Regards, Slavek Kabrda [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_talk:Bkabrda/EPEL7_Python3#Sharing_Packages_between_Python_3_installations.3F _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel
