Re: python-team: New branch

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hi Ricardo,

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>> I have a Python mass update branch I've been developing, holding it back
>> because I kept finding breakage (whether caused by my changes or
>> already there).  There's now 200 commits in it, including an update to
>> virtualenv and typing extensions, along Python build systems
>> improvements.
>
> There's a good chance there will be significant overlap with the
> python-team branch in its current state.
>
>> I'll try getting it a bit further in terms of packages breakage then
>> send it for review.  If you'd rather see it already and work on a
>> wip-python-team branch, I could submit it already in its more rough
>> form.
>
> If you could clean it up and push the parts that do not touch the Python
> build system you could push those commits to python-team.  Let's delay
> the build system changes this time around.

Note that I've updated the packages in (gnu packages python-build),
including setuptools, which means near full Python world rebuild anyway.
I think my changes may be better for python-team-next, if the next cycle
is to be as short as possible.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim