On 1/6/22 10:56, 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.
Then bite the bullet and simply go for the newer Python release. Anything else is infinitely piling up technical depths and does not have any benefit in real life. Nobody is willing to pay for increasing backporting efforts needed for keeping outdated stuff. It's just that these costs are not really made transparent. Ciao, Michael.