Dependency untangling riddle

[Marcus Calhoun-Lopez]

I have opened a pull request to update the default version to 3.8 in the Python PG [1].
I will also start updating my ports to 3.8 where possible.

-Marcus

[1] https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/6383

> On Feb 13, 2020, at 8:30 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> Then the question is: why is that the default in the python portgroup?
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>> On Feb 6, 2020, at 09:25, Marcus Calhoun-Lopez <mcalhoun at macports.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> [1] https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/cc950d4f42c4bc65d8152b2465394cfef8a654b4/_resources/port1.0/group/python-1.0.tcl#L73
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>>> On Feb 5, 2020, at 11:35 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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