Dependency untangling riddle

[Marcus Calhoun-Lopez]

Speaking only for myself, I have set the default Python to 3.7 in some of my ports even with 3.8 available because 3.7 is still the default in the python PortGroup [1].
My own rule has been: use the same version as the.PortGroup.

[1] https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/cc950d4f42c4bc65d8152b2465394cfef8a654b4/_resources/port1.0/group/python-1.0.tcl#L73

> On Feb 5, 2020, at 11:35 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> Yes that is part of the problem but I have also seen plenty of commits since python38 became stable in which python37 was still preferred and I don't know why people are doing that.