(Not) deprecating py35 subports
Joshua Root
jmr at macports.org
Sat Jun 2 23:37:23 UTC 2018
On 2018-6-3 07:28 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> The whole idea of the graveyard was to help users migrate to a newer
> version automatically, but in case of python it doesn't really serve
> the purpose if ports get moved to the graveyard at random times (ok,
> it makes sure that ports don't end up being installed forever, but the
> replaced_by part is not really all that helpful).
TBH I've never understood the rationale for the -graveyard ports. If
someone is using python3.3 for a project, removing their modules from
that python version and installing them for a newer version doesn't help
them migrate in a smooth manner, it just breaks their project.
- Josh
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