Re: Retstricting versions/builds with pkgtools

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

SOOOO, its not worth messing with?

On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 5:21 AM Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost> wrote:
>
> On 2021-09-18 04:13, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> > PYTHON_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED=27
> >
> > That would be a min-version, right? What of Python v3.9 is already installed?
> > I just dont like the thought of having 3 versions of Python installed
> > if I only need
> > one of those versions. OF COURSE, if Python v 2.7 got installed first, there
> > is not much that can be done...
>
> Unfortunately it isn't that simple, since Python 3.9 isn't a superset of
> Python 2.7. Python 3 was a rather major change in the language and not
> all Python 2 code will work in Python 3. So if you have code marked as
> needing Python 2, there is a fair chance that Python 3 won't cut it at all.
>
> So with Python, it's definitely not a min-version. Python 2 and Python 3
> will exist side by side for a long time, until all Python 2 code is dead.
>
>    Johnny
>
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