Not sure this be related to that, but there have been since several months a general trend (there are exceptions) among http://slackbuilds.org contributors to update to the latest versions of packages, for no there other reason that "a new version has been released" .

This tendency, questionable ...

Thanks for the replies.

python3 is avaiable as a pre-built binary package via gslapt or slapt-get
rich[~]$ sudo slapt-get --show python3
Package Name: python3
Package Mirror: http://download.salixos.org/x86_64/14.2/
Package Priority: Preferred
Package Location: ./salix/d
Package Version: 3.5.1 ...

Hi,

I was looking to install python3 (3.6.2) from within sourcery but could not see it.

Looking in http://slackware.uk/salix/sbo/14.2/python/ (the mirror i use in /etc/slapt-get/slapt-srcrc) I see it is there.

However, looking in http://slackware.uk/salix/sbo/14.2/SLACKBUILDS.TXT, i can't see it ...