sounds reasonable.. could you please post some link and/or source comment these changes extensively so it'd be easier for other devs to reuse, add to your changes?
..ede On 15.01.2013 14:51, Michael Terry wrote: > The distribute package has some support for doing this cleanly. You can put > the following in your setup.py: > > > extra = {} > if sys.version_info >= (3, 0): > extra.update( > use_2to3=True, > use_2to3_fixers=['custom_fixers'] > ) > > > And put custom 2to3 code that the tool didn't fix automatically in a module > in the toplevel called custom_fixers. > > I'll start nibbling around the edges of the code, trying to support Python > 2.4->3.3. One thing I noticed was that _librsyncmodule.c needs some fixes to > compile with 3.x as well as 2.4, so I'll start there. > > -mt > > > On 15 January 2013 05:05, <edgar.sol...@web.de <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de>> > wrote: > > how would you figure this? patching during setup? install different file > versions? sounds messy. > > ..ede > > On 15.01.2013 03:29, Michael Terry wrote: > > Hrm. OK. I wonder if we can't offer an option to 2to3 on the fly > during setup.py if the user wants to install for python3. > > -mt > > > > > > On 14 January 2013 12:32, <edgar.sol...@web.de > <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de> <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de > <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de>>> wrote: > > > > as we don't really have hurry with that decision i vote for keeping > an eye out how stable the next 0.6 release works out, and reconsidering a > move to a python2.6+ duplicity 0.7 again thereafter. > > > > ..ede > > > > > > On 14.01.2013 15:44, Michael Terry wrote: > > > My personal push for Python 3 support is because Ubuntu is > pushing to be able to ship only Python 3 on the desktop image. (Plus, Python > 2.7 is the last Python 2.x. We're at the end of that life line.) > > > > > > In that context, dropping support for Python 2.4 is important > because it is vastly simpler to write a codebase that works in both 2.6 and > 3.x than 2.4 and 3.x. > > > > > > -mt > > > > > > > > > On 14 January 2013 09:43, Michael Terry <m...@mterry.name > <mailto:m...@mterry.name> <mailto:m...@mterry.name <mailto:m...@mterry.name>> > <mailto:m...@mterry.name <mailto:m...@mterry.name> <mailto:m...@mterry.name > <mailto:m...@mterry.name>>>> wrote: > > > > > > My personal push for Python 3 support is because Ubuntu is > pushing to be able to ship only Python 3 on the desktop image. (Plus, Python > 2.7 is the last Python 2.x. We're at the end of that life line.) > > > > > > In that context, dropping support for Python 2.4 is important > because it is vastly simpler to write a codebase that works in both 2.6 and > 3.x than 2.4 and 3.x. > > > > > > -mt > > > > > > > > > On 14 January 2013 05:46, <edgar.sol...@web.de > <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de> <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de > <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de>> <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de > <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de> <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de > <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de>>>> wrote: > > > > > > i'd limit it to data critical fixes. we simply have no > man power to maintain both series. on the other hand, what exactly is > pressing us to python3 or even python2.6.. > > > isn't it merely keeping an eye out not to hack something > backwards incompatible? > > > if so, we could simply announce that we do not strive to > meet this criteria anymore, but still accept contributions of people or hack > something if we feel we shouldn't exclude users with very old systems. > > > > > > meaning: announce 0.7 with python2.6 compatibility and > developing it non dogmatic against it. phasing out 0.6 alltogether. > > > > > > ..ede > > > > > > > > > On 13.01.2013 18:29, Kenneth Loafman wrote: > > > > I think we have to continue support of the 0.6 series > for a while, open to discussion. > > > > > > > > As to 0.7, good idea. New features can be added here, > fixes go to both series. > > > > > > > > ...Ken > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 5:54 AM, <edgar.sol...@web.de > <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de> <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de > <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de>> <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de > <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de> <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de > <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de>>> <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de > <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de> <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de > <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de>> <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de > <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de> <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de > <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de>>>>> wrote: > > > > > > > > On 13.01.2013 02:25, Michael Terry wrote: > > > > > Hello! Yet another thread on the slow march to > Python 3 support. > > > > > > > > > > The last place we left it was that Ubuntu was > considering throwing some effort behind porting duplicity and maintaining > such a patch themselves. That didn't happen for manpower reasons. > > > > > > > > > > But I notice that Red Hat just passed (Jan 8, > 2013) the end of "Production 1" for RHEL 5 [1]. Which is the first milestone > on the way to RHEL 5 end of life (which won't be fully dead until 2020). > > > > > > > > > > I believe that is the point in which duplicity > bumped from Python 2.3 to 2.4 (the end of Production 1 for RHEL 4), right? > > > > > > > > > > I propose that after 0.6.21 ships, the next > release be versioned 0.7.0 with a minimum Python of 2.6. And that we don't > intend to make further 0.6.x releases unless we discover a data corruption > issue. > > > > > > > > > > That way, we (I) can start working on patches > that take use of 'future' imports and such with an eye towards eventually one > of the 0.7.x releases working with Python 3 (while still keeping Python 2.6 > compatibility). > > > > > > > > > > > > > sounds good to me. but let's wait a bit after > 0.6.21 and decide considering the criticality of open bugs if we just do > another 0.6 round or switch to 0.7 already. > > > > but generally yes. > > > > > > > > ..ede > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~duplicity-team > <https://launchpad.net/%7Eduplicity-team> > <https://launchpad.net/%7Eduplicity-team> > <https://launchpad.net/%7Eduplicity-team> > <https://launchpad.net/%7Eduplicity-team> > > > > Post to : duplicity-team@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:duplicity-team@lists.launchpad.net> > 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