Re: [gentoo-dev] The uncertain future of repository mirrors

2025-03-24 Thread Mitchell Dorrell
On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > TL;DR: I'm thinking of shutting down all gentoo-mirror repositories, > except for gentoo and guru. > > > Over 10 years ago, I've started the repository mirror & CI project. > What started as a bunch of shell scripts on a u

Re: [gentoo-dev] Slotting PyPy

2024-10-19 Thread Mitchell Dorrell
n, slot would indicate PyPy > 3.x slot and subslot would indicate the ABI (changes rarely). > Previously, you "split the packages even further", but now you're suggesting to "recombine all these packages into one". What was the original reason for splitting the packages, and what has changed since then? I don't understand enough of the Python and PyPy infrastructure to support or object to either approach. I generally think it's more elegant to have a single package for a single codebase/project, but the practical concerns are more important. - Mitchell Dorrell >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting dev-lang/python into per-slot packages, starting with 3.14

2024-10-12 Thread Mitchell Dorrell
On Sat, Oct 12, 2024, 14:03 Michał Górny wrote: > On Sat, 2024-10-12 at 10:12 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > This naturally means that only the specific version requested (e.g. via > > targets) would be installed, and no cross-slot autoupgrades would > > happen. Ideally, I'd like to start doing

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting dev-lang/python into per-slot packages, starting with 3.14

2024-10-12 Thread Mitchell Dorrell
How will the upgrade path look, from e.g. 3.16 to 3.17? What will the typical Gentoo user experience be? What will the experience be for a Python developer with a local overlay containing custom Python packages? I didn't like this idea at first, but I'm warming up to it. On Sat, Oct 12, 2024, 06:

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting dev-lang/python into per-slot packages, starting with 3.14

2024-10-12 Thread Mitchell Dorrell
On Sat, Oct 12, 2024, 06:23 Michał Górny wrote: > On Sat, 2024-10-12 at 12:13 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, 12 Oct 2024, Michał Górny wrote: > > > > > > IMHO this would abuse the package name for information that > absolutely > > > > doesn't belong there. It belongs in PV or