Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 9 kwietnia 2017 18:15:56 CEST, "William L. Thomson Jr." napisał(a): >Not sure if this is practical, it may be less work if the use of >Python and Ruby versions ( maybe others ) is reversed. Rather than >adding all the versions that the ebuild supports. What if it only >included versions it d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Mon, 2017-04-10 at 00:04 +0100, James Le Cuirot wrote: > People thought the sky would fall when 2.4 deprecated Fixnum > and > Bignum. It really didn't. It's still just a warning right now but I > haven't seen that warning since it was dealt with in Rails. > This change broke the rspec test sui

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Kent Fredric
On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 22:04:13 -0400 "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: > This has never been the case with Java. Its not a problem with C binaries either, because you have a discrete compile time, and language level interop between compiled binary forms. Meanwhile, you cannot build two parts of a gi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 13:38:58 +1200 Kent Fredric wrote: > > When you reverse this, you introduce a situation where adding a new > version across the board creates a new skeleton-tree of support. FYI, this is how it is when a new Java JDK comes out. When 1.5 came out, if 1.4 code had issues compili

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Kent Fredric
On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 12:15:56 -0400 "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: > > The approach mentioned above, if the packages do not have issue. I > could go ahead and switch to ruby24 and pyton 3.6 across the board. > Which I cannot do now till a bunch of ebulids have their targets > increased. > This

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 19:59:22 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > How do you plan to test a thousand packages against the new version > of python, and then revision/stabilize all of the broken ones > immediately? Or is the plan to just break everyone's systems, and ask > them to report bugs for the th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Francesco Riosa
On 10/04/2017 01:59, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 04/09/2017 07:15 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: If the package failed, all that would need to be done kinda like now is a given variable modified in the ebuild. Just marking what ever it did not work with. As mentioned that could be done via

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2017-04-09 23:59 UTC

2017-04-09 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2017-04-09 23:59 UTC. Removals: app-misc/ofl 20170404-16:43 mattst88 acf50dc1d27 dev-ruby/ruby-webkit-gtk 20170405-10:10 mgorny 9f79870f533 dev-ruby/ruby-webkit-gtk2

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/09/2017 07:15 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: If the package failed, all that would need to be done kinda like now is a given variable modified in the ebuild. Just marking what ever it did not work with. As mentioned that could be done via my ebuild-batcher[1], though same functionality

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 15:20:02 -0700 Brian Dolbec wrote: > > This could be partially automated using buildbot. The easiest would > be for pkgs containing working test suites. Those that pass could be > auto-enabled with that python with ~arch keywords. I think if a > stable pkg is to be added the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 23:44:50 +0200 Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > On 04/09/2017 06:15 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > Not sure if this is practical, it may be less work if the use of > > Python and Ruby versions ( maybe others ) is reversed. Rather than > > adding all the versions that the e

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 12:15:56 -0400 "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: > Python 2.7 stuff aside. I am not sure how many Python and Ruby packages > break with a newer release. In pythons case I think once they support > Python 3.x, there is little chance if it breaking with further 3.x > releases. Not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Francesco Riosa
On 10/04/2017 00:20, Brian Dolbec wrote: On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 23:36:18 +0200 Francesco Riosa wrote: On 09/04/2017 18:15, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: Not sure if this is practical, it may be less work if the use of Python and Ruby versions ( maybe others ) is reversed. Rather than adding all

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Francesco Riosa
On 09/04/2017 23:52, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 04/09/2017 12:15 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: Not sure if this is practical, it may be less work if the use of Python and Ruby versions ( maybe others ) is reversed. Rather than adding all the versions that the ebuild supports. What if it on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 17:52:44 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 04/09/2017 12:15 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > Not sure if this is practical, it may be less work if the use of > > Python and Ruby versions ( maybe others ) is reversed. Rather than > > adding all the versions that the ebuild

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Francesco Riosa
On 09/04/2017 23:44, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: On 04/09/2017 06:15 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: Not sure if this is practical, it may be less work if the use of Python and Ruby versions ( maybe others ) is reversed. Rather than adding all the versions that the ebuild supports. What if

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 23:36:18 +0200 Francesco Riosa wrote: > On 09/04/2017 18:15, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > Not sure if this is practical, it may be less work if the use of > > Python and Ruby versions ( maybe others ) is reversed. Rather than > > adding all the versions that the ebuild sup

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/09/2017 12:15 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: Not sure if this is practical, it may be less work if the use of Python and Ruby versions ( maybe others ) is reversed. Rather than adding all the versions that the ebuild supports. What if it only included versions it did not support? Even

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 04/09/2017 06:15 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > Not sure if this is practical, it may be less work if the use of > Python and Ruby versions ( maybe others ) is reversed. Rather than > adding all the versions that the ebuild supports. What if it only > included versions it did not support?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread Francesco Riosa
On 09/04/2017 18:15, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: Not sure if this is practical, it may be less work if the use of Python and Ruby versions ( maybe others ) is reversed. Rather than adding all the versions that the ebuild supports. What if it only included versions it did not support? Rational

[gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-09 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
Not sure if this is practical, it may be less work if the use of Python and Ruby versions ( maybe others ) is reversed. Rather than adding all the versions that the ebuild supports. What if it only included versions it did not support? Rational When new versions are added. Ebuilds must be updated