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Re: Switching default python to 3.6?



Thomas Klausner <tk%giga.or.at@localhost> writes:

> Currently, pkgsrc defaults to python 2.7. The newest python is 3.6.
>
> Locally, I've been using pkgsrc with a default of python-3.x for a
> long time now, and I don't see any breakage because of that. Packages
> that only support python-2.7 still install that version.
>
> I'd like to switch the default to 3.6. Are there any particular
> reasons I shouldn't?

I'm not really plugged in enough to python to be sure.

But we're only ~20 days from freeze start, and this structurally matches
some recent destabilizing changes.  In general I'm opposed to signficant
large-scale-impact changes right before freeze, such as (aside from
micro/security updates) upgrading perl, clang, or gtk3, or changing php
versions.  (I realize gtk3 and php haven't caused trouble, and the
fallout from the new clang was minor, but nobody expected perl to cause
trouble, and it really did.  I don't mean to object to progress, just to
separate recovery from progress from the freeze.)

I don't see any compelling arguments why this needs to be now vs for Q4,
and in particular you didn't propose it 45 days ago :-)

If there aren't serious objections by the time the freeze is over, the
first few weeks of the new quarter seem like a good time.

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