On 1/3/22 11:22, Simon Lees wrote:
On 1/3/22 19:22, Michael Ströder wrote:
Python 3.6 has reached EOL and various Python module packages already drop support for 3.6. But still Python 3.6 is planned to be shipped with Leap 15.4 instead of a newer version.
Instead of should read as "As well as"
IMO this does not make sense at all.
This is what SUSE's customers want so SUSE pays people to maintain certain versions of python even after upstream doesn't. Its also why they paid people to develop "Single Spec" to make it easier to maintain multiple versions of python packages in Leap.
In know this theoretical argument quite well. But I'm really tired of it. Outdated is not "stable". I have some customers running SLE and in practice 3rd-party Python packages are not well-maintained and are too old for installing recent software. So in real life this causes all sorts of additional efforts, even with really bad work-arounds. IMO it's a bad product management decision. Ciao, Michael.