On Wed, 2021-06-23 at 13:19 +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Ühel kenal päeval, K, 23.06.2021 kell 11:56, kirjutas Michał Górny: > > > - python*|pypy3) > > > + python3.[5678]|pypy3) > > > > We don't really support < 3.8 anymore but I can update that while > > merging, I guess. > > Yeah, this is originating from the previous block having python3.[34], > so the changeset is making sure the 3.9 and 3.10 cases end up using the > added path, not about 3.5/3.6, for which the code path is kept the same > with this. > > I don't foresee myself working on making distutils cases work with this > anytime soon. Maybe we should file a bug on that. It's a bit surprising > this wasn't done there too upstream, I guess those who made this change > only cared about it for python itself and they are running compileall > manually over all the caches. >
The problem roughly is that distutils is unmaintained for years, and upstream plans to remove it entirely in Python 3.12. If anyone's going to work on patches, setuptools is probably where it would need to land. But right now it's all a huge mess. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
