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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Jun 24 21:51:29 EDT 2017

On 25 June 2017 at 02:10, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

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 :-)

I already have a cpicker venv set up in vex to run cherry-picker [1], so I'll probably just add blurb to that (or create a new "cpydev" one with all the CPython workflow tools).

So count me in as a +1 for standardising on a model where:

Cheers, Nick.

[1] Based on a "make altinstall"ed 3.6 for now, although I'll be able to drop that once I upgrade to Fedora 26

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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