python310 and compiler requirements
nia <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:35:58 +0000
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Revision 1.176 to pyversion.mk by adam on 08-Oct-25 dropped python310 from PYTHON_VERSION_ACCEPTED. I missed this. I'm still relying on python310, and will be for the forseeable future. I'm also shipping python310 to users. Popular software like yt-dlp works absolutely fine and will for a few more years at least. It's the last version to build without a C11 compiler. In pkgsrc, this is taken to mean every gcc version after 4.8. This excludes all GPLv2 versions of GCC, including all versions of GCC supported by UnixWare 5 (which has active users) and OS X 10.4 (which has active users). It also excludes NetBSD 7. Since developers keep changing packages to build with meson without much thought to compatibility with non-NetBSD platforms, python is essential to use pkgsrc. Either keep python310, or raise pkgsrc's bootstrap requirement to C11 and stop pretending. Thanks.