[Slackbuilds-users] six and python3-six

[Tim Dickson]

On 29/10/2018 12:44, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, B Watson wrote:
>
>> Do we need separate six and python3-six builds?
>
>> Right now, six will build & install python3 support if python3 is
>> installed on the build box. python3-six is identical, except (a) it
>> requires python3 in the .info file and (b) it builds only the python3
>> stuff.
>
>   I'm a Python end-user and support the idea of having one build that
> supports both Python2 and Python3. All my new code is Python3 but many
> applications remain bound to Python2. It will take a while for everyone to
> migrate to Python3.
>
> Rich
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six is a special case, as it is provides compatibility for scripts 
running different versions of python.
It is useful to be able to create 2 separate packages though, a python2 
version, and a python3 version (with different package names), because 
you can have both installed at the same time. It would be hard to do 
that with only one package with options, unless the options changed the 
package name - which would then make it harder to manage with tools.

Tim