Re: Change build/find_python.sh and roll 1.14.0-rc3? (was: Re: py2.7 used by default when py2 and py3 are both available)

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 09:13:38PM +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> IIRC the soak was to end on Wednesday and any change requires at least
> a week's extension.
>
> Here's the patch. I smoke tested it and it passed, but I'm seeing tests
> randomly fail even in unpatched trunk so I can't an unqualified +1.

I would prefer if we just nominated this for 1.14.1 as usual.

This is something that is very, very easy to work around for packagers.
And I don't think we are seeing a lot of people making their own builds
from source these days, anyway. And even then, in the worst case they ask
for help and it's easy to solve.

So I see no reason to fix this for .0, not even with the hypothetical case
in mind where we would drop python2 support to a stronger degree than
we already have.

If it is deemed very important, we could just document this in release
notes under "Known issues" until 1.14.1 comes out.
Received on 2020-05-16 13:01:17 CEST