Re: Python 3.11, bytecode and new internals
On November 21, 2022 5:02:57 PM UTC, "Louis-Philippe Véronneau" <pollo@debian.org> wrote:
>On 2022-11-21 02 h 08, Julian Gilbey wrote:
>> I'm just flagging this up here, with a question about how we should
>> proceed. Certainly we are not ready to make Python 3.11 the default
>> Python version!!
>
>This is a concern I share and I think I've been pretty vocal about it.
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>I feel the state of python packages for Bookworm with 3.10 was pretty good and it seemed reasonable to prioritize stability for our next stable release :)
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>It's very frustrating to work on packaging python libraries and apps for a whole release cycle, just to see all that work put in the bin at the last minute because upstream doesn't support 3.11...
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>I've been told the current 3.11 transition was a test, and if it was clear too many important things were broken and couldn't be fixed, we would roll back and release using 3.10.
>
Looks like you can add #1024521 to the list.
Scott K
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