Subj : Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Benny Pedersen
Date : Tue Aug 14 2018 13:37:16

Hello Maurice!

11 Aug 2018 21:25, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 BP>> -1, if not much intrest to drop python2 it will survice longer

 MK> It definetly looks that way, hence things like Firefox requiring you 
 MK> to have both python2 and python3.

seems why i dont emerge firefox here :)

 MK> I have a choice to have either one 
 MK> or the other or none at all.

your choice is not my problem :)

 MK> However if none then I lose mc so for 
 MK> now I decided to go with python2 and make alsa struff happy while I am 
 MK> at it.

disable fam, its solved imho ?

 MK> With python3 I can keep mc happy as it doesn't care which 
 MK> version since it is glib that requires it and it is happy with either 
 MK> python2 or python3.

glib can be compiled with python3 on gentoo, where is the problem then ?

 MK> At this point in time if I am forsced to python3 
 MK> or both then I'd probably choose none and learn to live without mc.  
 MK> ;-)

then you loose both aswell

 BP>> glib have not depending on python2 anymore on gentoo
 MK> Interesting that they made that choice.  Seems to me another reason I 
 MK> won't be using gentoo.  ;-)

and time to learn more

 BP>> maybe try python 3.7 ? :)
 MK> Why?

+1, python 2.7 is long supported on gentoo, failback if python3 fails

 MK> I am not planning to install Firefox and would still need 
 MK> python2 for mesalib if I wanted to install xorg and apps that require 
 MK> mesalib.  I see no point for python3 other than Firefox at this stage 
 MK> of the game.

report it to the precompilers to change away from python2 would help get rid of 
dual versions of python api needs :)

 MK> Also I am still happy with a text browser so this isn't 
 MK> worth anything to me personally.

yep i am happy no need for X11 on my fidonet :)

 MK> Het leven is goed,
 MK> Maurice

i got 4.18 now


 Regards Benny

.... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

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