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nofrak

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Registered: 2009-07-07

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Where's python 2.7? [UPDATE] Oh, there it is.

I note that, while python 2.7 was released 14 days ago, Arch is still on 2.6.5.  Having learned from experience that the dev team is on top of things, I'm sure there's a good reason for this, but I can't for the life of me find it.  Python been flagged out of date without comment on the package page, and there's nothing in either recent news or the wiki discussing the transition.  Where am I not looking to find out when the new version will be available?  Or am I just being impatient?  I fully realize that I may be the only Archer out there who's really itching for some argparse action...

Last edited by nofrak (2010-07-18 12:58:19)

Allan

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Re: Where's python 2.7? [UPDATE] Oh, there it is.

There has been a large mailing list thread about this.  The update will hit [testing] on August 10 (after KDE 4.5 is released but before GNOME RCs get released).   It is a massive rebuild (more that 500 packages, 11% percent of the repos) as we are enabling USC4 support in python2 and transitioning to python3.  See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dev … _Todo_List for more info.

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nofrak

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Registered: 2009-07-07

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Re: Where's python 2.7? [UPDATE] Oh, there it is.

Aha!  So it was in the wiki, I just was looking in the wrong place.  And, as I suspected, a good reason.  Many thanks.