On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 10:03 PM Augie Fackler <r...@durin42.com> wrote:
> > > > On Mar 4, 2019, at 11:25, Pulkit Goyal <7895pul...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hey everyone, > > > > I hope everything is going well. > > > > After years of work on porting mercurial to Python 3 by everyone, we are > close, very close. Right now, only 5 tests fail on python 3 and there are 4 > regressions (tests which were passing earlier and started failing > recently). Few days ago, I installed mercurial using Python 3 as default > mercurial on my personal system. Things are working good. Things which I > have noticed not working are: > > > > 1) phabricator extension > > 2) curses interface > > 3) out of core extensions like evolve, topic > > > > I will try to fix 1) and 2) this week. > > > > That said, I will like to propose to mark the upcoming major release hg > 5.0 as the beta release with Python 3 support. We have more than 50 days > before that release. We can: > > > > 1) start testing python 3 more aggressively by having more people > install hg on py3 by default > > 2) advertising that next release will be py3 beta will give enough time > for extensions author to port their extensions > > 3) help/advice/guide extensions authors on how to port their extensions > to Py3 while keeping py2 compatibility > > > > How do you feel? > > I'm strongly in favor - even without the above fixed, I think we're in a > good enough place to ship it as a beta with a "known issues" list someplace > prominent. Maybe we should make the bug report link point at a > Python3BetaBugs wiki page until we're satisfied things work completely? > I have updated the Python3[0] wiki page. If there are pushbacks, I will revert it to old state. I have made BetaBugs[1] section in that page. Interestingly there is "Things need to be investigated" section also. [0]: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Python3 [1]: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Python3#Beta_bugs > > > > > Thanks and regards > > Pulkit and Gmail autocomplete assistant > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mercurial-devel mailing list > > Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org > > https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel > >
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