[Python-Dev] Failing tests (on a Linux distro) (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Jul 2 10:14:23 EDT 2018

On 7/2/2018 3:38 AM, Petr Viktorin wrote:

And while I'm responding here, a bit of reflection and a heads-up: What Fedora as a distro should do better next time is re-build the entire ecosystem with a new Python version. For 3.7 we started doing that too late, and there are way too many projects that weren't prepared for async as keyword and PEP 479 (StopIteration handling).

With the 'next version' now being branched off of master at beta 1 rather than at the first release candidate, 'next time' starts about 4 months sooner than it used to. Doing full builds for 3.8 can start any time. It has already had about 5 months of exclusive patches.

This suggests that known changes from pending to deprecation to exception should be done soon after the version branching. I don't know if there are any such still needed for 3.8.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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