[EPEL-devel] Proposal for Python 3 packaging in EPEL 7

[Orion Poplawski]

On 12/10/2014 03:48 AM, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> Hi all,
> I know I've been promising this for quite some time to several people, so I finally managed to put together a proposal for packaging Python 3 in EPEL 7 (it'd also scale to EPEL 6 for that matter).
> I've created a wiki page [1] with the proposal and I'd like to hear comments and thoughts on it. There are some TODOs and variants in few places - I'd like to hear your opinions on these, or perhaps suggestions on better approaches.
> I'll create new documents with the updated proposal at some points during the discussion, so that people can easily see where the proposal is going without having to compare wiki revisions.
> 
> Is there any other list/interested parties that should be put in CC of this mail? If so, please feel free to respond and do that yourself.
> 
> Thanks!
> 

Nice to see some progress on this.  Some comments:

- We should have /usr/bin/python3, if only for end user convenience.
- I want to be able to build my EPEL python3X packages out of my existing
python dist-git packages' epel7 branch.

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