Re: Issues with newer Python versions

[Bodie <bodie%bodie.cz@localhost>]

On 25.11.2020 22:28, Brogan Beard wrote:
> I have a separate thread already where I am trying to make sure I know 
> how
> to properly report a bug. That being said, is anyone else experiencing
> problems using modern Python when building certain packages? I am 
> running
> python39 and, for example, continue to receive attribute errors. I am
> capable enough (I think) to tinker and fix them, but I am wondering if 
> I
> should just downgrade versions. Perhaps there is a recommended *stable* 
> version
> of Python for building packages from source? I am running current, so 
> would
> expect things like this to happen. Just wondering what I can do to
> make my *current
> *builds more stable besides fixing one-off issues here and there.

as a side note this one was very interesting discussion on related topic

https://bugs.python.org/issue42173

There's a lot of stuff in Python 2.x, but in general I will recommend to
follow option from pkgsrc, which is 3.7 (and higher) as upstream is 
moving
and there's not point to keep resources on this. Simply better to find 
and
fix issue with 3.x line then invest in 2.x line