Python3 Now Included in Current
Slackware has finally shipped Python3 by default in the next release after Patrick has approved the queue from Heinz along with other Python3 packages and also some rebuilt packages. You will notice that Patrick decided to unify Python 2/3 binding support into a single package instead of splitting it into python-XXX and python3-XXX. This will reduce the number of packages to support both version and it's going to be a lot easier to kill Python 2 in the future. It's also possible that SBo will follow the same directions from Slackware in the next cycle.
Since python3 has been included, providing ninja/meson is getting easier as the main dependency has been met. Python3 is also one of the requirement for newer version of vulkan-sdk, so this batch also came with the latest version of vulkan-sdk. If you are using mailman, you can start using mailman 3 which also requires Python 3. It has tons of new features compared to 2.x.
Another big thing is boost 1.65 which is the latest boost library found upstream. Please note that this version *might* breaks some other applications so you might have to find a patch to fix those issues.
One more wishlist granted. Waiting for more :)
Since python3 has been included, providing ninja/meson is getting easier as the main dependency has been met. Python3 is also one of the requirement for newer version of vulkan-sdk, so this batch also came with the latest version of vulkan-sdk. If you are using mailman, you can start using mailman 3 which also requires Python 3. It has tons of new features compared to 2.x.
Another big thing is boost 1.65 which is the latest boost library found upstream. Please note that this version *might* breaks some other applications so you might have to find a patch to fix those issues.
One more wishlist granted. Waiting for more :)