Hiya all! Tarek alerted me to that Martin v Löwis has checked in the great job done during the DZUG-sprint of adding Python 3 support to the 0.6 maintenance branch. I tested it yesterday, and I have two comments.
1. First a little heads up!! When I tested this yesterday, I first ran the tests for various Python versions, and then I tried to install it on Python 3.1. Unfortunately I got a syntax error. Something was not properly converted to Python 3. Looking at the source code of the file in question showed that it WAS converted. I thought it was the PYC-file, but then I realized you can't get syntax-error in pyc-files. I deleted all in site-packages, and ran the install again: Same result. Finally I fixed it by deleting all in site-packages, and rm -rf dist build in the distribute checkout and also deleting all pyc-files in the distribute checkout and trying again. Since then, I have not been able to repeat the problem. (Deleting just build and dist or just the pyc-files or just everything in site-setup did not work. Only when I deleted *all* of these did the problem go away). I suspect that the existence of my setuptools port in the Python 3.1 install before running the new one made something very strange. But it made the strangeness in either build/ or dist/. So a heads up to everyone here: If you have used my setuptools port, make sure you delete all traces of it from your Python 3 install *before* attempting to install Distribute on Python 3. 2. There is now a build_py that will run 2to3 on the code. That's cool, but there doesn't seem to be a way to enable it. It looks for a setuptools.use_2to3 attribute to check if it should be used, but I couldn't see a way of setting that. Passing it in as a parameter to setup() gives you a warning, that the parameter is unknown. How should it be done? -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
