Re: default 3.11 question

On 5/30/26 20:12, Charlie Li wrote:
> jgh wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am new to the Python FreeBSD community, however I have over the 
>> years maintained and updated python ports. Recently, however, I have 
>> become more of a programmer in python and am curious what the 
>> direction is for addressing our current default version of 3.11.
>>
>> According to Python, this version will be EOL by 10/2027. With the 
>> pace of change on portstree and ironing out various issues and 
>> software lifecycle, I imagine it will take some planning, coordination 
>> and many updates to meet this deadline.
>>
>> Are there any conversations, efforts or planning in addressed our 
>> current default and what our new path may be?
>>
> There is an active PR 285957 to make 3.12 the default. There is still a 
> long list of build failures in the way however.
> 

is there a doc or something that's keeping track of these failing 
builds?  if not i am happy to help organize them in the wiki which may 
get more people helping resolve the failing builds (myself included).

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=285957 seems to be 
recording fallout but its a bit difficult to get a handle on the overall 
state of things.

-pete


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Pete Wright
pete@nomadlogic.org