Nick Coghlan wrote: > They're not unnecessary for Python developers, as if you want to make > sure you're not accidentally using any features from later versions of > Python, the only way to reliably check that is to actually test your > code on those older versions. Tools like "tox" make that relatively > easy to do, but you still need a straightforward way to get hold of > the old runtimes for tox to use. The addition of these packages to > Fedora means that as soon as you do "dnf install tox", those runtimes > are all brought in automatically via Recommends, rather than having to > jump through multiple hoops to reconfigure your local package > management. That contradicts churchyard's claim in the FESCo tracker: | These packages are not intended to be used as dependencies for other | packages (such as we have some "compat" packages when another package | needs an older version of a library), hence we want to stop people from | requiring them, see https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/650 - as a result | no software in Fedora will ever run on those. I would also like to point out that if you have these suffixed Python versions installed, some build scripts may be accidentally picking up those instead of the recommended default versions of Python. Kevin Kofler _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
