Re: [gentoo-dev] IPython 7.17 drops Python 3.6 support AKA upgrade reminder

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, 2020-08-01 at 06:15 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 3:29 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > I would like to take this as an opportunity to remind you to port your
> > packages to Python 3.7 and 3.8.  According to our timeline [1], packages
> > that are not ported by the end of the year are going to be last rited.
> >  We would also like to switch to 3.8 in December.
> > 
> > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Python/Implementations#Implementation_support_timeline
> 
> So, has anybody given thought to publishing a list of packages that
> still need to be updated, including their maintainers?
> 
> Or perhaps filing bugs?
> 
> Or is the plan to go ahead and watching nothing happen for the next
> few months, then start masking hundreds of packages, and then watch
> devs scramble to fix problems they didn't realize existed?
> 

Or perhaps you'd like to help out instead of wasting your own
and everybody else's time on talking?

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Best regards,
Michał Górny


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