[gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
Not sure if this is practical, it may be less work if the use of Python and Ruby versions ( maybe others ) is reversed. Rather than adding all the versions that the ebuild supports. What if it only included versions it did not support? Rational When new versions are added. Ebuilds must be updated

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Francesco Riosa
On 09/04/2017 18:15, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: Not sure if this is practical, it may be less work if the use of Python and Ruby versions ( maybe others ) is reversed. Rather than adding all the versions that the ebuild supports. What if it only included versions it did not support? Rational

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 04/09/2017 06:15 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > Not sure if this is practical, it may be less work if the use of > Python and Ruby versions ( maybe others ) is reversed. Rather than > adding all the versions that the ebuild supports. What if it only > included versions it did not support?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/09/2017 12:15 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: Not sure if this is practical, it may be less work if the use of Python and Ruby versions ( maybe others ) is reversed. Rather than adding all the versions that the ebuild supports. What if it only included versions it did not support? Even

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 23:36:18 +0200 Francesco Riosa wrote: > On 09/04/2017 18:15, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > Not sure if this is practical, it may be less work if the use of > > Python and Ruby versions ( maybe others ) is reversed. Rather than > > adding all the versions that the ebuild sup

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Francesco Riosa
On 09/04/2017 23:44, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: On 04/09/2017 06:15 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: Not sure if this is practical, it may be less work if the use of Python and Ruby versions ( maybe others ) is reversed. Rather than adding all the versions that the ebuild supports. What if

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 17:52:44 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 04/09/2017 12:15 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > Not sure if this is practical, it may be less work if the use of > > Python and Ruby versions ( maybe others ) is reversed. Rather than > > adding all the versions that the ebuild

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Francesco Riosa
On 09/04/2017 23:52, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 04/09/2017 12:15 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: Not sure if this is practical, it may be less work if the use of Python and Ruby versions ( maybe others ) is reversed. Rather than adding all the versions that the ebuild supports. What if it on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Francesco Riosa
On 10/04/2017 00:20, Brian Dolbec wrote: On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 23:36:18 +0200 Francesco Riosa wrote: On 09/04/2017 18:15, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: Not sure if this is practical, it may be less work if the use of Python and Ruby versions ( maybe others ) is reversed. Rather than adding all

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 12:15:56 -0400 "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: > Python 2.7 stuff aside. I am not sure how many Python and Ruby packages > break with a newer release. In pythons case I think once they support > Python 3.x, there is little chance if it breaking with further 3.x > releases. Not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 23:44:50 +0200 Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > On 04/09/2017 06:15 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > Not sure if this is practical, it may be less work if the use of > > Python and Ruby versions ( maybe others ) is reversed. Rather than > > adding all the versions that the e

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 15:20:02 -0700 Brian Dolbec wrote: > > This could be partially automated using buildbot. The easiest would > be for pkgs containing working test suites. Those that pass could be > auto-enabled with that python with ~arch keywords. I think if a > stable pkg is to be added the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/09/2017 07:15 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: If the package failed, all that would need to be done kinda like now is a given variable modified in the ebuild. Just marking what ever it did not work with. As mentioned that could be done via my ebuild-batcher[1], though same functionality

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2017-04-09 23:59 UTC

2017-04-09 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2017-04-09 23:59 UTC. Removals: app-misc/ofl 20170404-16:43 mattst88 acf50dc1d27 dev-ruby/ruby-webkit-gtk 20170405-10:10 mgorny 9f79870f533 dev-ruby/ruby-webkit-gtk2

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Francesco Riosa
On 10/04/2017 01:59, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 04/09/2017 07:15 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: If the package failed, all that would need to be done kinda like now is a given variable modified in the ebuild. Just marking what ever it did not work with. As mentioned that could be done via

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 19:59:22 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > How do you plan to test a thousand packages against the new version > of python, and then revision/stabilize all of the broken ones > immediately? Or is the plan to just break everyone's systems, and ask > them to report bugs for the th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Kent Fredric
On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 12:15:56 -0400 "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: > > The approach mentioned above, if the packages do not have issue. I > could go ahead and switch to ruby24 and pyton 3.6 across the board. > Which I cannot do now till a bunch of ebulids have their targets > increased. > This

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 13:38:58 +1200 Kent Fredric wrote: > > When you reverse this, you introduce a situation where adding a new > version across the board creates a new skeleton-tree of support. FYI, this is how it is when a new Java JDK comes out. When 1.5 came out, if 1.4 code had issues compili

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Kent Fredric
On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 22:04:13 -0400 "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: > This has never been the case with Java. Its not a problem with C binaries either, because you have a discrete compile time, and language level interop between compiled binary forms. Meanwhile, you cannot build two parts of a gi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Mon, 2017-04-10 at 00:04 +0100, James Le Cuirot wrote: > People thought the sky would fall when 2.4 deprecated Fixnum > and > Bignum. It really didn't. It's still just a warning right now but I > haven't seen that warning since it was dealt with in Rails. > This change broke the rspec test sui

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 9 kwietnia 2017 18:15:56 CEST, "William L. Thomson Jr." napisał(a): >Not sure if this is practical, it may be less work if the use of >Python and Ruby versions ( maybe others ) is reversed. Rather than >adding all the versions that the ebuild supports. What if it only >included versions it d