From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Multiple python-3 packages Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 05:12:25 -0500 Message-ID: <20170127101225.GA28495@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43830) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cX3WC-0000NC-K3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2017 05:12:33 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cX3W8-00021j-JO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2017 05:12:32 -0500 Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:52649) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cX3W8-0001zb-DT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2017 05:12:28 -0500 Received: from localhost (c-73-188-17-148.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [73.188.17.148]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 6C68424594 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2017 05:12:26 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline 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: guix-devel@gnu.org Currently we have Python 3.4 and 3.5. Python 3.6 was released recently. When we added 3.5, I thought it was a good idea to keep 3.4 around in case some packages need it. It turns out that nothing is using it in our tree. Do we want to keep 3.4 and 3.5 around? There is a maintenance cost incurred at each new release, because their shared patches tend to diverge each time. If we should keep them, how should the package inheritance go? Now, it's like this: 2.7 < 3.5 < 3.4 If we kept them all, should 3.5 and 3.4 both inherit 3.6?