Re: Python

[Lars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net>]

Hi Andreas,

> This version requires python-importlib-metadata; not its latest version 6,
> but something at least 5 and less than 6. We were still at 4.something.
> So I have just updated it to 5.2.0, the latest version 5 from last December.
> This gives me python-json-spec, so I am one step closer to calibre, which
> I am interested in.
note that importlib-metadata is – again – part of the standard
library, as the table on [1] points out. So if we would ship Python 3.12,
we would not need it. Bumping it to version 5.2 seems like the correct
approach right now, since we’re at 3.10.7 on core-updates (as far as I see).

> But python-importlib-metadata has 892 dependents (among which interesting
> looking ones, such as freecad and gnome-terminal). I wonder whether I am not
> breaking 891 dependents by enabling, maybe, the one that I am interested in.
Besides the 'sanity-check phase, which checks for the most common issues,
the only thing we can do is rebuild and run tests. Since Python is a
dynamic language that still does not guarantee that it will run, but
it’s all we can realisically do -.-

Cheers,
Lars

[1] https://pypi.org/project/importlib-metadata/