Re: Python3 Port of ModelBuilder

[Scott Talbert <talbert@techie.net>]

On Tue, 8 Oct 2019, Andreas Tille wrote:

> Hi Flávio,
>
> Varun Hiremath once cared for Debian packages of ModelBuilder[1].  His
> effort seemed to have been stalled and so Debian remained at version
> 0.4.1.  In the process of migrating all Debian packages from Python2 to
> Python3 I stumbled upon this package and moved under Debian Science
> team maintenance[2].
>
> I realised that version 0.4.6 need a Python module BIP[3].  (BTW, as a
> general remark: It would be nice if you would keep release tags in sync
> with PyPI.)  Since BIP is not packaged for Debian I would consider doing
> so - but only Python3 modules are permitted to go into Debian.  Since
> I'm not sure whether I will reach my original goal to get ModelBuilder
> converted to Python3 succesfully I wonder whether you can uncover some
> plan you might have with ModelBuilder whether you want to port it
> yourself do Python3.

Hi Andreas,

Do you (or Flavio) plan on porting model-builder to Python 3?

If not, I will probably just convert this to an RM request as it seems 
model-builder is unmaintained upstream (and downstream).

Thanks,
Scott