Re: No Explicit Python Version Dependency In Package Definitions?

2021-01-05 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Phil, > So I have a system say with python3.8 and python-scipy, and I decide I > want to then install python-pandas (for example). Will it not then > build this for python 3.9 (due to the new definition), if the version of > python has incremented between the installs of python-scipy and > p

Re: No Explicit Python Version Dependency In Package Definitions?

2021-01-05 Thread Christopher Baines
Phil writes: > Thanks for the reply. > > Christopher Baines writes: > >> Build systems are a mechanic to deduplicate common steps, but also >> common inputs between packages, and the python-build-system will include >> a default Python as an input. >> >> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.gi

Re: No Explicit Python Version Dependency In Package Definitions?

2021-01-05 Thread Phil
Thanks for the reply. Christopher Baines writes: > Build systems are a mechanic to deduplicate common steps, but also > common inputs between packages, and the python-build-system will include > a default Python as an input. > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/build-system/py

Re: No Explicit Python Version Dependency In Package Definitions?

2021-01-04 Thread Christopher Baines
Phil writes: > Hi, > > It seems standard not to declare python2 or python3 as a dependency on > python package definitions - however other dependent python libraries are > stated. > > eg python-scipy will declare dependencies on python-numpy and > python-matplotlib - but not on a specific versi

No Explicit Python Version Dependency In Package Definitions?

2021-01-04 Thread Phil
Hi, It seems standard not to declare python2 or python3 as a dependency on python package definitions - however other dependent python libraries are stated. eg python-scipy will declare dependencies on python-numpy and python-matplotlib - but not on a specific version of python package required