Re: Python 2 d-d-a proposal
Perfect, thanks, Ian! I'll get a ML for a Python 3 porting SWAT team
together once we make sure no one has a sane technical reason to avoid
this so soon (I don't think there's any)
Thanks, Ian! Excited to work with you!
Paul
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Ian Cordasco
<graffatcolmingov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Heyya d-p,
>>
>> I'd like to send an email to d-d-a asking that project to consider no
>> longer creating new Debian tools in Python 2.
>>
>> I'd like this to have the endorsement of the team, so, does anyone object
>> to
>> me asking people to not write new tools in Python 2 only (prefer
>> alternative
>> deps or porting), and only use Python 2 in very special curcumstances or
>> for legacy codebases (perhaps a pitch to move to Python 3), along with a
>> note that we plan to deprecate Python 2 when upstream support is gone
>> (2020), which puts us on track for two cycles (Buster)
>>
>>
>> I'll make note of a team which should exist to help with such porting,
>> (I'm up to help with this) that was one of the items that came out of
>> the PyCon chit-chat. I got the sense from the room that this would be
>> OK, but just checking if anyone here has a substantive objection.
>>
>> If not, I'll send that out later on today/tomorow.
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Paul
>>
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>
>
> Hey everyone!
>
> I realize I haven't made a formal introduction of myself to this list (I'll
> do that some other time), but I have a fairly significant amount of
> experience adding Python 3 compatibility to tools while retaining Python 2
> compatibility (I recently just helped SQLObject release 3.0.0a1 which is the
> first version to support Python 3.4). We might want to move to making the
> tools compatible first and then drop support for Python 3. Also, I'm very
> much up for helping with this.
>
> Cheers,
> Ian
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