On Thu, 2022-01-06 at 10:56 +0100, Matěj Cepl wrote:
Dne 05. 01. 22 v 21:18 Jan Engelhardt napsal(a):
So, from the point of view of an ISV, one has to rebuild all the Python packages which the distro originally shipped and which a software needs, just to take advantage of the 3.10 interpreter… right?
See how carefully I phrased my original sentence not to promise anything I cannot stand behind. We are currently brainstorming what to do next, but there is no solution yet. Whatever we see so far seems quite expensive in terms of manhours needed. Maintaining two stacks of Python packages so distant from each other as Python 3.6 and 3.10 gets really complicated really quickly.
Can't we identify those packages that _must_ be maintained for 3.6 (because they're required for core distro functionality) and maintain only those for both versions, replacing all others with the 3.10 packages? Martin