Sunday 06 Dec 2015 20:03:21, Michał Górny wrote : > Reorder the Python implementations to ascending version order, with > CPython listed first and other implementations in descending preference. > > The previous ordering has been used for two reasons: > > 1. There were packages which supported Python 3.x or PyPy partially but > their documentation builds or test functions required CPython 2.x. > The specific ordering caused python_export_best (the predecessor of > python_setup) to use CPython 2.x for those tasks. This is now replaced > by explicit implementation restrictions in python_setup. > > 2. PyPy setup runs were usually slower than CPython, and CPython 3.x > runs were often slower due to 2to3 calls. Combined with parallel build > runs, this ordering caused slower builds to start earlier and sometimes > resulted in more efficient use of threads. However, nowadays we no > longer do parallel builds. > > Therefore, it seems reasonable to finally reorder the implementations > into a more intuitive order. > --- > eclass/python-utils-r1.eclass | 6 +++--- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/eclass/python-utils-r1.eclass b/eclass/python-utils-r1.eclass > index 0bce6a9..3ea23a8 100644 > --- a/eclass/python-utils-r1.eclass > +++ b/eclass/python-utils-r1.eclass > @@ -41,10 +41,10 @@ inherit toolchain-funcs > # @DESCRIPTION: > # All supported Python implementations, most preferred last. > declare -g -r _PYTHON_ALL_IMPLS=( > - jython2_5 jython2_7 > - pypy pypy3 > - python3_3 python3_4 python3_5 > python2_7 > + python3_3 python3_4 python3_5 > + pypy pypy3 > + jython2_5 jython2_7 > ) > > # @FUNCTION: _python_impl_supported > -- > 2.6.3 > >
Michal, While at it, please delete jython2_5 from this list since jython versions < 2.7 are in the process of being purged from Portage. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552452 Cheers, -- Patrice Clement Gentoo Linux developer http://www.gentoo.org