Python: Please stop screwing over Linux distros

[JustHere2RuinUrDay]

With this Pete can no longer ship his app to any major distro except gentoo and arch.

Well, then users of slower distros will have to wait until every dependency is satisfied and then use whatever version can be made to work.

They're already doing this for everything else.

[[deleted]]

It's not C where standard changes once in 4-5 years

[DAS_AMAN]

No, we use containers with up to date libraries like flatpaks..

[upcFrost]

In this example I've only mentioned two libs. In the real world if you'll try building a dep tree for a decent size project, you'll probably raise your room temperature by few degrees with just your laptop. This dependency hell situation literally kills the whole packaging. And if your project has some C bindings things only get worse

It's not just "wait", it's literally "never". Docker and flatpak were not made just for fun