[Slackbuilds-users] RFC: SlackBuild to Install Newer Python to /opt

[Willy Sudiarto Raharjo]

>For anyone interested, since this topic has come up yet again. Some time back I wrote a script which makes some minor changes to a Slackbuild for a python3 package to allow it to be easily rebuilt using whatever version of python the builder chooses, the default remains the stock version. The resulting package has a unique file name so it plays nice with other versions. I understand the rationale for not upgrading the stock version, but for those of us that require an upgraded version it allows an easy path to do so. SB need not accept any official responsibility for it and can take a "use at your own risk" posture which also frees maintainers. I currently run both 3.14 and the stock 3.9 with no issues.

when a script is accepted, then we have to make sure it works with others and not causing future problems plus not adding more load to all maintainers and admin to test the scripts in our repository

if its not acceptable in SBo, it doesn't prevent anyone to post it somewhere else. i privately maintain some scripts that works only in current, thus not acceptable in SBo repository. So i push it to my own repository 


Willy Sudiarto Raharjo