public inbox for [email protected]  

help / color / mirror / Atom feed

From: Noah Misch <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Replace uses of deprecated Python module distutils.sysconfig
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 17:50:55 -0800
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 05:18:47PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> [ I was hoping for more opinions, but I guess nobody cares but us ]
> 
> Andres Freund <[email protected]> writes:
> > On 2022-01-27 17:53:02 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> So now we need to discuss whether we want to back-patch this.
> >> Pros: avoid configure warning now (not worth much); avoid outright
> >> build failure on Python 3.12+ in future.
> >> Cons: breaks compatibility with Python 2.6 and 3.1.

> If nobody else has weighed in by tomorrow, I'll backpatch to v10.

Works for me.  I agree wanting Python 3.12 w/ PG10.latest is far more likely
than wanting Python 2.6 or 3.1.  If someone lodges a non-academic complaint,
we could have back branches fallback to the old way if they detect a Python
version needing the old way.  I doubt anyone will complain.

view thread (22+ messages)

reply

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
  reply via email

  To: [email protected]
  Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
  Subject: Re: Replace uses of deprecated Python module distutils.sysconfig
  In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

This inbox is served by agora; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox