Re: RFC: scraping old versions of some packages (r-base, llvm) on 10.13

Daniel Johnson <[email protected]> Sun, 8 Oct 2017 22:54:08 -0400

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> On Oct 8, 2017, at 5:25 PM, Merle Reinhart <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Where I work uses python3.4 from the fink distribution (we use it with the Hubble and James Webb planning and scheduling systems).  It is doubtful that we’d be able to get everything switched to python3.6 before going to 10.13.  So one vote for keeping python3.4.
> 
> Merle
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On Oct 8, 2017, at 4:35 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Should the following packages be blocked from 10.13 to minimize the number of variants being pushed forward?
>> 
>> r-base31
>> (r-base32 is already blocked from 10.13)
>> r-base33
>> 
>> llvm37
>> llvm39
>> Nothing uses either llvm3x.
>> 
>> python34
>> 
>> I would love to get rid of boost1.55 as well, but 48 packages still use it.
>> 
>> Unfortunately, dist blocking some R and python flavors will mean adding a Distribution field to pymods and rmods.
>> 
>> Hanspeter

Python 3.4 is still supported upstream for security fixes so I have no problem continuing to maintain it. It’s not a great burden to keep it going.

Daniel

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