Re: Python default -> 3.14?

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2026 at 07:23:08AM +0100, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:
> 
> > Python 3.14 has been in pkgsrc a long time, and the latest version is
> > now 3.15.
> >
> > I propose that we change the default to 3.14 (currently, it is 3.13).
> 
> Looking at the python binary packages for NetBSD 11 amd64, the only
> packages that exists for 3.13 but not 3.14:
> 
>   py-backports.zstd: (included in 3.14+, so not a problem
> 
>   py-torch: While this is important, the pkgsrc version is out of date.
>   It's 2.8.0 from August 2025, which isn't really that long ago, but
>   upstream has released 2.14.1 as a micro on the 7th minor release since
>   2.8.0!  This is therefore not a reasont to refrain from updating to
>   3.14.
> 
> My take is that the small list of "3.13 packages exists but not 3.14"
> means that changing to 3.14 is not only appropriate this minute, but is
> likely overdue.

Thanks for the comparison.

I've just bumped the default version to 3.14.

I'd appreciate if it someone updated py-torch to a version supporting
newer Python versions.
 Thomas