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Re: [UDD] Is there some effort to port UDD to Python3?



On 13/05/20 at 16:38 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Lucas,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 08:47:11AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > > 
> > > Not as far as I know. I suspect that, once it becomes necessary, it will
> > > be easy to do given the codebase is relatively small.
> > 
> > I agree that the small code base makes it probably easy.  But I'm
> > worried about the "once it becomes necessary" part.  We all know that
> > Python2 is only alive due to our security team and we should actively
> > work on getting rid of the dependency rather sooner than later.  Working
> > "under pressure" makes things always uneasy - no matter how easy it
> > would be in principle.
> > 
> > I know probably nobody will stop me from doing it - but I'm hesitating
> > adding another item on my table which is full of Debian Med - Covid-19
> > stuff.  I'd volunteer to port those importers I've written myself once
> > somebody gives the signal - but I'd love if those who have written the
> > core parts would take the lead (rather sooner than later).
> 
> I need to come back to this topic since I like to test the importers on
> my local machines which are usually running testing.

Use the Vagrant development environment?

Lucas


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