Hi Lewis, Glad we are on the same page, and that sounds like a fantastic idea. I can get around to committing that change to master tomorrow.
Thanks, Alex On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 6:21 PM, lewis john mcgibbney <lewi...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Alex, > I couldn't agree more. > One way we could immediately find out is to also build against Python > version 2.7, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 within travis.yml > https://github.com/apache/climate/blob/master/.travis.yml#L18-L19 > Do you want to go ahead and commit the change to master... let travis CI > run the code and see where we are at? > I am happy to work with the team to gradually upgrade the entire codebase > based on the errors flagged by TravisCI. > > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 5:57 PM, <dev-digest-h...@climate.apache.org> > wrote: > > > > > > > Python 2/3 compatibility > > From: "Goodman, Alexander (398K)" <alexander.good...@jpl.nasa.gov> > > To: "dev@climate.apache.org" <dev@climate.apache.org> > > Cc: > > Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 17:57:44 -0700 > > Subject: Python 2/3 compatibility > > Hi all, > > > > For those out of the loop, Lewis has been spearheading the effort to move > > the OCW codebase to Python 3 ( > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLIMATE-854). We are also in the > > process of moving over our conda packages to the conda forge ( > > http://conda-forge.github.io/) in order to help automate building them > > across multiple python versions. > > > > Personally while I support making OCW Python 3 compatible, I also want to > > reiterate that I think we should also strive to make our code backwards > > compatible with Python 2. That means, for example, we should be using > > things like imports from future at the top of our module files as needed. > > > > As I have said, I think many users in the Earth Science community will be > > sticking to Python 2 for as long as they can, and that is the impression > I > > have gotten after talking with many other people. What do you guys think? > > > > Thanks, > > Alex > > -- > > Alex Goodman > > Data Scientist I > > Science Data Modeling and Computing (398K) > > Jet Propulsion Laboratory > > California Institute of Technology > > Tel: +1-818-354-6012 > > > > > > > -- > http://home.apache.org/~lewismc/ > @hectorMcSpector > http://www.linkedin.com/in/lmcgibbney > -- Alex Goodman Data Scientist I Science Data Modeling and Computing (398K) Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Tel: +1-818-354-6012
