From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Update Python to current versions Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 20:18:38 -0400 Message-ID: <20160424001838.GB10040@jasmine> References: <1461269926-7934-1-git-send-email-h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> <57195E66.4010502@gmail.com> <5719C780.4050607@goebel-consult.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37982) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1au7l4-0007mj-8V for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2016 20:18:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1au7l0-0001WF-Uv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2016 20:18:42 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:47874) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1au7l0-0001WB-Qy for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2016 20:18:38 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5719C780.4050607@goebel-consult.de> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Hartmut Goebel Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 08:41:04AM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Am 22.04.2016 um 01:12 schrieb Cyril Roelandt: > > I think the latest Python 3.x is Python 3.5.1 (see > > https://www.python.org/). Maybe we should forget about 3.4.x, WDYT? > > Python 3.4.4 is the latest version fon the 3.4 series. So we should > provide this too. (Esp. as long as 3.5 ist not packaged yet). As mentioned by others, updates to packages with many dependents are very computationally expensive, and so we try to do many of them in batches using the 'core-updates' branch of our Git repository. I agree that we should try to provide the latest version of whatever series we have packaged. The changelog mentions many bug fixes [0]. Can you take a look at the work that's already been done towards 3.5? It starts here, and the discussion continues in March: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-02/msg01265.html If we can successfully update to 3.5, that would be best. Otherwise, we should consider using 3.4.4. [0] https://docs.python.org/3.4/whatsnew/changelog.html