[scl.org] Python 3.6 availability

[Nick Coghlan]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 12:50 AM, meson <meson at posteo.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there any estimate on when Python 3.6 will be available as SCL?
>>
>> Our devs are asking about it. If it's going to take a long time, I'll try my
>> hand at building the packages myself.
>
> It likely makes sense to have some community maintained sclo-* Python
> packages

I've been mulling this idea over for the past couple of weeks, and I'm
wondering if it might make sense to create a rolling "sclo-python3"
SCL, that's initially forked from
https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/rh-python35/, but
explicitly promises to rebase to new Python feature releases when they
come out.

So if people were happy to always run on the leading edge (even for
X.Y.0 releases), they could use "sclo-python3", but if they wanted to
stay on a particular X.Y release for a while, they would need to
switch to the downstream rh-pythonXY SCLs.

Remi, if I wanted to do that, where would I start?
https://github.com/sclorg-distgit is useful as a reference for
submitting changes to existing community SCLs, but it doesn't provide
any guidance on how to start a new one (and that info is also missing
from the wiki).

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan
Red Hat Platform Engineering, Brisbane