On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 22:49:04 -0600 Orion Poplawski orion@cora.nwra.com wrote:
So, we're just about ready to have python3-3.4 built in rawhide. This package builds fine in EPEL7 too. So, I'm proposing to build (and hopefully with help from others) maintain python3-3.4 for EPEL. Other options/considerations:
- We could build a python34-3.4 which provides python3 = 3.4. This
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Perhaps as time goes by, it may make sense to package a later python3.X version if people really want to.ld allow us to have multiple
versions concurrently and to conceivably eventually switch a later version as the default. Not as easy to maintain as just another branch of the python3 package though. And we could do a hard cut at some later point with the python3 package method as well, so I'm not sure it buys us much there either.
I'd definitely prefer to try and do something where we aren't stuck with 3.4 for the rest of epel7's life.
- I looks like RedHat has been producing python33 SCLs, and presumably
will produce a python34 SCL eventually. Do we care about this? Personally I really want to simply be able to build my current Fedora python packages on EPEL7 with python3 versions just as it is done in Fedora and I don't think we can do with SCLs.
So, my preference is for the first and will start that soon unless there is consensus for a different approach.
I think a number of fedora infrastructure folks might have input here, but they are all out at pycon this week... so if you could hold off until next week at least and I will see about pointing them to the thread here?
kevin