Dne 10. 08. 21 v 22:04 Ben Greiner napsal(a):
If SUSE is going to stick with the decision to stay on Python 3.6, they basically tell their SLE customers and Leap users: Use pip/conda or look for another distribution.
Yes, that's the nature of enterprise Linux distribution. Most of our customers prefer predictability and stability to being up-to-date, because they have their workflow which they don't want to touch for how-many-years-we-support-SLE. I know that for non-enterprise users it is hard to swallow, but that's a reality. To make the situation slightly more palatable for Leap users (and enterprise developers who are in the similar situation), we provide also the latest released version of Python with setuptools and pip (3.9 at this moment, and hoping for 3.10 for SP4, if various schedules work together), so that you can easily use pip and still have at least the basic interpreter (which is where most security bugs are) supported by us. We all, SUSE, Red Hat, Oracle, Debian, Ubuntu work on resolving this problem of “too fast/too slow”, but there is no good solution for it.
Furthermore every RPM package with a Python dependency will continue to have to support and require Python modules for 3.6, which is EOL after December 2021.
Yes. We still support Python 2.6 for SLE-11 (with very specialized and expensive support contract).
In Tumbleweed, we made it really easy to enable co-installable Python flavors and the specfiles of the interpreters are prepared so that it is really easy to switch the primary python3 provider (regardless if you want to have multiflavor or not). If you are not going to use this in 15.4, you miss out a lot.
I cannot say more about our future products, but I am afraid co-installable Python flavours won't be in SLE-15SP4. Best, Matěj -- https://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/, Jabber: mcepl@ceplovi.cz GPG Finger: 3C76 A027 CA45 AD70 98B5 BC1D 7920 5802 880B C9D8 Basically, the only “intuitive” interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned. -- Bruce Ediger when discussing intuivity of Mac OS http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.next.advocacy\ /msg/7fa8c580900353d0