On 25/07/18 23:20, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 7:58 AM Grand Duet <grand.d...@gmail.com> wrote: >> After today's emerge-webrsync, I have found that python_targets >> and python_single_targets use flags have been changed again >> from python3_5 to python3_6, which leads to a lot of recompilation. >> >> It already happened last month and a week later the both use flags >> was changed back, again with a lot of recompilations. >> >> And it was not the first time! >> >> Is any real need to switch python_targets and python_single_target >> back and forth every month? >> > It's very simple: > > 1. The default was switched to python3.6. This was probably a bit premature. > 2. People complained that this broke their systems, so we reverted the > default back to python3.5. > 3. The problems were fixed, so we switched the default back to python3.6. > > Sorry to have wasted your precious computing time, but hey, people > make mistakes sometimes. > Major impact on users as well as creating confusion, talk on how a lot of packages fail on 3.6 whats to say this isn't another mistake - isn't this what news articles are for?
BillK
