On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:02 PM Raphael MD <raph...@gmail.com> wrote: > > now suffering with python 3.6/3.8 dependency mess. >
On anything but a simple system it seems very difficult to deal with the python update without overriding the python flags on at least some packages. I recommend maintaining these in a separate config file to make it easier to clean these changes up eventually. Following the news item and enabling 3.6 and 3.7 in the interim is probably your best course of action to minimize the amount of micromangement. You shouldn't see much asking for 3.8 just yet, at least not when using stable keywords. If you're using testing keywords, well, thanks for testing, and you can see why they call it that. In a few weeks I think it will settle down, and it isn't quite as bad if you're updating daily/weekly since the number of changes is more moderate. Much of the problem stems from the fact that we're trying to rapidly get up to date on python. That means that various packages are in various states of support for various versions of python. Also, default settings for building python were changed before all the packages supporting them were stabilized. I can't really speak for those doing that but I suspect it is in part to avoid having to wait for bugs for all the impacted packages to get resolved, or to obtain permission to force them to be removed. -- Rich
