On Mon, 2024-10-14 at 01:43 +0100, Sam James wrote:
>
> > However, I think the cleanest way forward would be to stop slotting
> > CPython like this, and instead have a separate package for each version,
> > just like the vast majority of distributions do, i.e.:
> >
> > dev-lang/python3_N
> >
>
Michał Górny writes:
> On Mon, 2024-10-14 at 01:43 +0100, Sam James wrote:
>>
>> > However, I think the cleanest way forward would be to stop slotting
>> > CPython like this, and instead have a separate package for each version,
>> > just like the vast majority of distributions do, i.e.:
>> >
>
Michał Górny writes:
> Hello,
>
> Historically, all versions of CPython were slotted in a single package,
> i.e.:
>
> dev-lang/python:3.N
>
I feel like this whole thing happened so fast I didn't have a chance to
comment properly. I understand you've retracted it but I'd like to add
some contex