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

[Hongxu Jia]

On 11/8/19 9:40 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 1:30 AM Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia at windriver.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>> 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.
>
Agree
>> In this case, if we do not support python2 more-itertools, we should also
>>
>> clean up these python2 recipes (python-pytest,python-pluggy,python-zipp)
>>
>> that runtime depends on more-itertools.
>>
>>
>> As above upstream commits [1] said, the old version 5.0.0 is the last
>> version
>>
>> to support python2. Two choice: going backwards or cleaning up, it is
>> impossible
>>
>> 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.
>
Agree

//Hongxu

>>
>> //Hongxu
>>
>>> Andreas
>>