Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver

Re:Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver by JshWright on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:13AM (#25254532)

Were there any backwards incompatible changes in 2.7? I'm trying to remember if I even noticed when that version bump happened...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver by mkesper on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:27AM (#25254719)

Yes, try to install it on a CentOS6 box as /usr/bin/python and suddenly no more yum etc. will work.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver by takeda on Monday November 30, 2020 @11:27AM (#25255469)

2.7 was essentially a bridge to Python 3. All features it has were backported from 3. This is why so many people before 2015 were saying that Python 3 doesn't provide any new features.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver by toyg on Monday November 30, 2020 @11:18AM (#25255339)

Release notes: http://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-file/v2.7/Misc/NEWS

TBH I think the main thing about that release, for me, was the introduction of context managers ("with"). I don't remember any particular breakage but I wasn't doing sysadmin at the time, maybe there is something in the bowels of redhat that relied on some broken behaviour...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Python Pip 20.3 Released with new resolver by mkl95 on Monday November 30, 2020 @11:51AM (#25255821)

I actually rejected it because I thought it would be extremely boring after a few days, I did that for a couple of projects when I was writing desktop apps in Python 2.x and I found it very easy (2.7 to 3.x is not especially hard either in most cases).

I never understood the point of hiring a full team for at least 6 months just for that. The only explanation I can find is that the project manager was clueless about Python.

[ Parent | on HN ]