[oe] [meta-python][PATCH 1/8] python-more-itertools: downgrade 7.2.0 -> 5.0.0

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 1:30 AM Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia at windriver.com> wrote:
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> On 11/6/19 5:07 PM, Andreas Müller wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 8:59 AM Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia at windriver.com> wrote:
> >> Python 2.7 is no longer supported. The 5.0.0 release will be the last
> >> version targeting Python 2.7. [1]
> >>
> >> [1] https://github.com/erikrose/more-itertools/commit/560b045b430e8292c18cf5283de4fdc3e13e56f7
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia at windriver.com>
> > * Version going backwards
> > * Such a patch at times python2 is eol - really?
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> All these patches just make python2 module work.
>
> Should we clarify that we do not support python2? If yes, we could clean
> up them.

as long as we have python2 in OE-core, IMO we should not drop the support.

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> In this case, if we do not support python2 more-itertools, we should also
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> clean up these python2 recipes (python-pytest,python-pluggy,python-zipp)
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> that runtime depends on more-itertools.
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> As above upstream commits [1] said, the old version 5.0.0 is the last
> version
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> to support python2. Two choice: going backwards or cleaning up, it is
> impossible
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> to patch latest more-itertools to support python2

this recipe was just added in last release ( zeus ) so I think its
fine to downgrade
since I dont think we have folks with feeds from previous releases
that will have to
maintain upgradable feeds.

But I think we should also apply these changes to zeus more importantly.

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> //Hongxu
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> > Andreas
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>