Re: Best practice for adding python3 version to existing module with helper programs?
Excerpts from Neil Muller's message of 2016-06-24 00:26:25 +0200:
> I'm working on packaging the latest version of sqlobject, which adds
> supprt for python 3, and I'm unsure of how best to handle the helper
> applications that ship as part of the package. The helper applications
> will work with both python2 and python3, so it's not clear to me how
> to apply the advice given in [1], and I'd ideally want the helper
> programs available regardless of which version of the module is
> installed.
>
> Looking at some other packages in the archive, there seem to be
> several approaches used to solve similar problems
>
> a) Bundle the application in both python2 and python3 version and use
> alternatives to manage the version (docutils and sphinx, for example,
> although in those cases the programs are used fairly extensively as
> applications)
This seems like the most reasonable method, and the one I'd expect as a
user.
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