On Dec 19, 2018, at 04:14, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> Can we revise our policy and prolong the bug fixing mode for 3.6? 3.6 is
> the default Python in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and RHEL 8. And due to several
> important syntax features it can be a minimal required version for long
> time.
We could but we
Ned - and any release manager in this situation in the future - has a
default valid answer to this request: No.
If we're ever going to do an "EL" or "LTS" Python, that should be decided
and agreed upon *long before the end of its existing planned maintenance
cycle* instead of right as it is
[Dropping python-dev so we don't end up swamping the python-committers
admins -- i.e. me :) -- with posts held for moderation]
On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 06:01, Victor Stinner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am working in the Red Hat "Python-maint" team which is maintaining
> Python 3.6 as the main Python
19.12.18 16:01, Victor Stinner пише:
RHEL 7 is based on Python 2.7.5 which has been released in 2013 (5
years ago) and there are 150 patches on top of it: it means that
around 30 patches are added per year.
Unlikely the patch rate was constant. I suppose that more patches were
created at
Hi,
I am working in the Red Hat "Python-maint" team which is maintaining
Python 3.6 as the main Python interpreter in RHEL 8, which will likely
be supported for at least 10 years. And we have been supporting Python
2.7 in RHEL 7. So obviously, being able to benefit of the upstream
effort and
