default python version and vim

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Oliver,

Am 02.11.2016 um 11:15 schrieb Oliver Kiddle <opk at opencsw.org>:
> On my systems, I got rid of python 2.6 completely because 2.7 was needed
> and I wanted to avoid having more than one python. In order to do this,
> I had to rebuild vim against python 2.7 instead of 2.6 because it has a
> python dependency.
> 
> I'm about to prepare to upgrade opencsw on all the systems where I
> work again and notice that the vim package has fallen behind with
> the last build being from a year ago. Has it been held back for a
> specific reason such as build issues with newer vim or is just waiting
> for someone to get around to it?
> 
> Would it perhaps make sense for python 2.7 to be the default more
> widely? Does that require much work? Modules wouldn't need rebuilding
> so it'd just be things like vim and perhaps they could be done
> incrementally? Are there particular things that still need 2.6?

To my knowledge Peter is busy with other stuff at the moment.
Peter, would it be ok for you if Oliver bumped vim to Python 2.7?


Best regards

  — Dago

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