[Python-Dev] New workflow change: Welcome to blurb (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Jun 24 12:10:36 EDT 2017

On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 08:57:24 -0700 Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:

On 06/24/2017 01:53 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Would you like to make it 3.5-compatible? 3.6 is quite young and not > all systems have it (e.g. Ubuntu 16.04, which many people use, has 3.5).

Well, tbh I think that's a bit silly. First of all, it shouldn't be installed in your system-wide python3 interpreter.

Well, you can always create a venv using the system python3.

Nowadays, to be honest, I use conda and Anaconda a lot, so I can very quickly create a local Python 3.6 environment on my work machine, even if my OS doesn't provide a Python 3.6. I'm just not sure everyone has the same habits as me, though I'm all for more core developers adopting conda :-)

Second, I assumed core devs were compiling their own Python interpreters locally in their account--in no small part so they can install any packages they want.

I used to do that, but in the end it feels too confusing and cumbersome. So I don't install self-compiled Pythons anymore.

Of course, since you are doing the work, it's ok for me if you don't want to make blurb Python 3.5-compatible. I'm just pointing out that it would ideally be better if it were :-)

Regards

Antoine.

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