On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 20:41:54 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 January 2016 at 13:48, Toshio Kuratomi <a.bad...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Despite the confusion, my feeling is that we want the newer > > versions. People who want to run python3 are willing to live more > > on the bleeding edge. What I've observed is that they want newer > > versions of libraries as well. Building packages that nobody wants > > to use because they are too old isn't that helpful to those who > > want to use the system packages for their development. For us > > packagers, getting applications to run on python3 frequently needs > > newer versions of supporting libraries due to bugfixes for python3 > > going into those libraries. Attempting to pin the python34 > > versions to the versions that ship with RHEL or in EPEL as the > > python2 version will quickly become a hindrance to us in those > > efforts as well. > > +1 from me for adopting newer package versions as baseline in the > python3X stacks. +1 from me too. Also, now that 35 is out, do we want to switch epel7 to python35 before we go building out things much more? kevin
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