next python

next python

[Marco Atzeri]

Hi Guys,

I was looking to start packing 3.10.X but I noticed
that 3.11.2 is already out.

Should I skip 3.10 and go directly to 3.11 ?

I am also considering to not update anymore python36-* and python37-*


Any preference on both ?

Regards
Marco

Re: next python

[Jon Turney]

On 07/03/2023 04:44, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I was looking to start packing 3.10.X but I noticed
> that 3.11.2 is already out.
> 
> Should I skip 3.10 and go directly to 3.11 ?

I think that's probably the right thing to do.

It takes us a long while to find the maintainer time to get all the 
modules and bindings updated, so trying to do that for both 3.10 and 
3.11 probably isn't a good idea.

(although I'm probably in a place now where I have enough automation to 
start trying to do automatic rebuilds of affected packages)

> I am also considering to not update anymore python36-* and python37-*

That also seems reasonable, since 3.6 is already EOL and 3.7 is EOL in Jun.

Re: next python

[Marco Atzeri]

On 08.03.2023 22:40, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 07/03/2023 04:44, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I was looking to start packing 3.10.X but I noticed
>> that 3.11.2 is already out.
>>
>> Should I skip 3.10 and go directly to 3.11 ?
> 
> I think that's probably the right thing to do.

thanks for confirming

> 
> It takes us a long while to find the maintainer time to get all the 
> modules and bindings updated, so trying to do that for both 3.10 and 
> 3.11 probably isn't a good idea.
> 
> (although I'm probably in a place now where I have enough automation to 
> start trying to do automatic rebuilds of affected packages)
>

the major problem will be testing as on the main packages (python3X)
it stacks on some IO.
Almost all the python3X-* packages require the packages to
be installed for the test to work.
Usually I run only manually the test for 3.9 versions to save time.

>> I am also considering to not update anymore python36-* and python37-*
> 
> That also seems reasonable, since 3.6 is already EOL and 3.7 is EOL in Jun.
> 



Regards
Marco