Re: Python default version

2018-03-20 Thread Perry E. Metzger
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:43:59 -0500 Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Right, I'm proposing changing our unwritten policy regarding which > Python we want to use by default. Our current policy isn't written > in documentation but is implied by the behavior of the python-1.0 > portgroup. So I propose changing th

Re: Python default version

2018-03-20 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 20, 2018, at 03:48, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 19 March 2018 at 16:52, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> I should clarify that there's nothing special in my proposal about Python >> 3.6. I'm merely proposing that when we use Python, we should now prefer to >> use the latest stable version of 3.

Re: Python default version

2018-03-20 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 19 March 2018 at 16:52, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > I should clarify that there's nothing special in my proposal about Python > 3.6. I'm merely proposing that when we use Python, we should now prefer to > use the latest stable version of 3.x, not the latest stable version of 2.x. > If stable Pyth

Re: Python default version

2018-03-19 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 19, 2018, at 10:52, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > I'm proposing that the portgroup should require ports to specify > python.versions. Don't offer a default. Identify and update all ports that > use the python portgroup but that don't set python.versions. Set > python.versions to 36 in those por

Re: Python default version

2018-03-19 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 19, 2018, at 10:09, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 12 March 2018 at 15:46, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> The python portgroup defaults to version 2.7, and in ports that have python >> variants, I've used that version by default as well. >> >> I was reminded by the members of the MacPorts meeting th

Re: Python default version

2018-03-19 Thread Perry E. Metzger
On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 16:09:11 +0100 Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 12 March 2018 at 15:46, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > The python portgroup defaults to version 2.7, and in ports that > > have python variants, I've used that version by default as well. > > > > I was reminded by the members of the MacPorts m

Re: Python default version

2018-03-19 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12 March 2018 at 15:46, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > The python portgroup defaults to version 2.7, and in ports that have python > variants, I've used that version by default as well. > > I was reminded by the members of the MacPorts meeting that it has been > announced that python 2's end-of-life wi

Re: Python default version

2018-03-19 Thread Perry E. Metzger
On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 09:46:36 -0500 Ryan Schmidt wrote: > The python portgroup defaults to version 2.7, and in ports that > have python variants, I've used that version by default as well. > > I was reminded by the members of the MacPorts meeting that it has > been announced that python 2's end-of

Re: Python default version

2018-03-17 Thread Jackson Isaac
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 8:16 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > The python portgroup defaults to version 2.7, and in ports that have python > variants, I've used that version by default as well. > > I was reminded by the members of the MacPorts meeting that it has been > announced that python 2's end-of-

Re: Python default version

2018-03-12 Thread db
On 12 Mar 2018, at 15:46, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Should we change the default python version to 3.6 now, or soon? Soon. Btw, https://brew.sh/2018/01/19/homebrew-1.5.0/ (first bullet).

Re: Python default version

2018-03-12 Thread Mark Moll
> On Mar 12, 2018, at 9:46 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > The python portgroup defaults to version 2.7, and in ports that have python > variants, I've used that version by default as well. > > I was reminded by the members of the MacPorts meeting that it has been > announced that python 2's end