What do you mean by support? The only thing EPEL supports (using the term loosely) is enabling Fedora packagers to branch and build their packages for EPEL. Any maintainer of the Fedora python3.9 package (or any related package necessary for bootstrapping) can request an epel7 branch and start building. The main thing to be aware of is to comply with EPEL policy [0], especially the part about not replacing/disturbing the base distribution. RHEL7 includes python3, so an epel7 python3.9 build would need to ensure it doesn't conflict with any filesystem paths from that package.
[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies#Policy
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 8:38 AM Pim Rupert pim@lemonbit.com wrote:
Hello,
I am posting to gather if there is enough support to provide python39 in EPEL.
Currently, EL7 users wanting to run modern python apps under uwsgi can only use uwsgi-plugin-pyton36@epel. New Django releases are expected to require 3.8 or higher. There is a rh-python38 SCL, but this version does not have a compatible uwsgi-plugin.
From https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1781940 I gather that there is interest in getting python39 in EPEL. I talked to Miro HronĨok, who was willing to work on packaging, if there would be sufficient support from EPEL.
Thanks,
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