[gentoo-python] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Updates from Python team: python.eclass gone, gpyutils updates, incoming PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET change

[Daniel Campbell <zlg@gentoo.org>]

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On 04/17/2017 01:39 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
> 
> Here's a quick summary of the recent events in the Python ecosystem
> in Gentoo, and quick note of what's to come.
> 
> 
> python.eclass is gone, next things to come
> ==========================================
> 
> As you probably learned already, python.eclass and distutils.eclass were
> removed almost a month ago. This concluded a long effort of many
> developers; once again, I would like to thank all of them for their help
> and continued support.
> 
> With python.eclass gone, there are still many things to do. A few years
> ago, Arfrever has been filing bugs requesting developers to improve
> the use of python.eclass in their ebuilds -- today, we need to ask
> developers to improve their use of python-r1.
> 
> The most important tasks at the moment are:
> 
> a. working on improving test suite statuses of Python packages -- good
> and reliable test suites make all other work much easier;
> 
> b. working on porting Python packages to newer versions of CPython 3.5
> and 3.6 -- we really ought to stabilize at least 3.5 soon;
> 
> c. fixing common mistakes in using python-r1 -- missing REQUIRED_USE,
> dependencies, partial USE conditionals;
> 
> d. converting the few remaining packages that depend on python directly
> to use one of the eclasses.
> [snip]

First, thanks a lot for the announcement. It's good to see Python
support improving across the board.

I originally had a question about item (d) in the above list, but
managed to find some documentation regarding this. [1] If changes like
this need documentation, don't you think it's best to make sure that
documentation effort doesn't go to waste (i.e. it gets linked to where
relevant)? I don't intend to be rude, in fact I really appreciate the
fact it was documented. It would cut down on questions to include such a
link, however, and might even accelerate the conversion in the long run.
Just a suggestion.

Thanks again for the continued effort, and the quality documentation
that accompanies it.

[1]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Python/Python.eclass_conversion

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