EPEL Python 3 for 7?

[Bohuslav Kabrda]

----- Original Message -----

> On 14 January 2014 09:57, Orion Poplawski < orion at cora.nwra.com > wrote:

> > It seems like it would be nice to have python 3 in EPEL 7. Anyone willing
> > to
> 
> > maintain it there?
> 

> > It seems to build fine:
> 
> > http://copr-fe.cloud.fedoraproject.org/coprs/orion/Python3_EPEL7/builds/
> 

> Well a couple of other things would be needed beyond just maintenance:

> 1) Does providing python-3.4 mean that 3.4 will be the only python every
> provided by EPEL?
> 2) If it doesn't then how are upgrades from 3.4 to 3.5 to 3.6 going to be
> handled?

> --
> Stephen J Smoogen.

Well the problem is that once you provide a build for EPEL, you shouldn't really do major updates [1], so it seems we would be stuck with whatever we build for 10+ years. I don't like that very much. We could probably do python3.4, python3.5 etc, but that'd probably require some modifications to dependency generators, etc... I'm not going to stay in anyones way to do this, but I won't do it myself. 

Slavek. 

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies#A_major_version_update 
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