Op dinsdag 28 december 2021 20:31:50 CET schreef Frans de Boer:

> LS,

>

> TW should be a rolling release and has for the most part the latest

> version of packages. Alas, Python is not one of them. Python now is at

> version 3.10.1, but TW is still at 3.8.12. That is an obstacle when one

> tries to cross-compile Python-3.10.1. It is not possible to do so

> because Python needs - by (bad?) design - a similar version major/minor

> version on the building machine.

>

> So, I wonder why is Opensuse TW so far behind with regard to Python-3.10.1?

> Also, the packages 'file' and 'Ncurses´ have workarounds - they suffer from

> the same issue, is there a workaround for Python?

>

> Regards, Frans.

Eh ...

 knurpht@Tuxedo-laptop:~> python3.9 --version
Python 3.9.9

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