On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 3:28 PM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 14. 11. 19 21:15, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > Now, python3:3.7 vs. python3:3.8 might be a more interesting question... > > The way Python is designed, 3.7 and 3.8 is parallel installable by default. > > The only things that conflict are: > > - package names, such as python3 or python3-pytest > - executable names, such as /usr/bin/python3 or /usr/bin/pytest > > By having the python3 modules with 3.7 and 3.8 streams, we would kill this > feature of Python while gaining a very little benefit (such as that users/admins > might select a stream to determine what version /usr/bin/python3 is). > > Not to mention that dnf itself depends on Python, so we would need to have dnf > in those modules, or rewrite dnf in Rust or use mcirodnf or have > /usr/libexec/platform-python for dnf. I was actually thinking more along the lines of: leave the actual python packages as non-modular but have a module that acts like the old `alternatives` tool to set up which binaries should own the main executable names. It would allow us to do the thing I proposed earlier around the major upgrade rebuilds (letting us set other modules as `buildrequires:` of `python: [ ]` for stream expansion) without actually having to build the complete python stack in the modules. That might be a really convenient strategy, honestly. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
