Python - plan & execution

[Marco Atzeri]

Am 26.03.2020 um 08:19 schrieb Yaakov Selkowitz:
> On Thu, 2020-03-26 at 06:54 +0100, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> Am 20.03.2020 um 04:47 schrieb Yaakov Selkowitz:

> 
> I would suggest the following:
> 
> * python2-2.7.z continues to provide all '2' symlinks.
> 
> * python38 be updated to 3.8.2, and 3.8 be designated the next default
> 'python3' version (with the '3' symlinks continued to be kept
> separate), and adjust python-wheel.cygclass accordingly.
> 
> * Similarly, a separate package (in Fedora it's called 'python-
> unversioned-command') provide unversioned symlinks, pointing to 2.7 for
> now (for compatibility).
> 
> * Anything currently dependent on 'python' or 'python2' should either
> be dropped if no longer needed, switched to 3 is possible, otherwise
> rebuilt.
> 
> * Drop 2.7 from the "default" version set in python-wheel.cygclass, and
> only build those modules that are actually needed by other things by
> specifying "all".
> 
> * Once that's done, look at what's still depending on /usr/bin/python
> ('python-unversioned-command'), and based on that decide when that can
> be changed to point to python3.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> --
> Yaakov
> 

first steps done:
- updated 3.8 to 3.8.2
- updated 3.7 to 3.7.7
- updated also their python doc
- upload of all of them is in progress

next steps:
- I assume we can drop 3.5
- for the time being no need to update 2.7 and 3.6
   (we are just one version behind)

- verify which python packages we need to build/rebuild

currently we have

119 *python27*
114 *python36*
115 *python37*
10  *python38*

and ~ 225 other *python* packages (plus 10 for python35)

- verify the fedora python-unversioned-command


Regards
Marco