On Sat, 2024-10-12 at 17:30 +0500, Anna (cybertailor) Vyalkova wrote: > On 2024-10-12 11:13, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Sat, 2024-10-12 at 10:50 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: > > > On 12/10/24 10:12, Michał Górny wrote: > > > > Comments? > > > > > > > I'm afraid it would lead to way too many packages and I'm not sure the > > > overall experience would be an improvement. > > > > 5 are too many? > > Absolutely no, and your proposal seems to solve the shortcomings of > slotting given the limitations. Just Python is not the only language > with multiple simultaneous versions supported in Gentoo (Ruby comes to > mind first), and it opens a slippery slope.
I still find this weak, compared to ~20k packages in Gentoo right now. > Is there anything that makes Python unique enough to stand out from > conventions estabilished for packaging other languages? Or would it > essentially lead to a new policy? Python pretty much sets the quality standards for Gentoo these days. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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