On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Michael Terry <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello! Just a note to say that apparently Ubuntu wants to try to get > Python 2 off the Desktop CD for Ubuntu 12.10. Which, if accomplished, > would mean porting duplicity to Python 3. > > I talked briefly to Canonical's resident Python geek, Barry Warsaw, > about it. He recommends using the same code base (i.e. no py2to3 or > helper libraries like python-six) and only supporting 2.6+ and 3.2+. > One can do this by using a few 'future' imports and careful coding > choices [1, 2]. > Ubuntu is being overly aggressive. At least they could put both Python 2.7 and 3.2 in the same release and give better notice to the upstream developers. I'm concerned that a single code base running on both 2 and 3 will be unstable and difficult to maintain. This would mean bumping the supported RHEL version from 5 to 6. I > know we've talked vaguely about when that would be acceptable to do > [3]. I'm not sure where we fell on that exactly. But I suppose if > Ubuntu is serious about this, they'd be willing to run with a ported > version ahead of upstream for a while as long as that's the direction > ya'll are going too. > There is a need to continue supporting RHEL 5, I think. We should be able to do so if we work the issues correctly. If not, then I guess it's EOL for RHEL 5 support from duplicity. Ten years of support for a version is way to long in this fast paced industry. How does that plan sound? > Sounds good to me. I have the barest beginnings of such a port [4], but it doesn't really > make any interesting changes yet. But it will likely be where future > work happens if anyone is interested in following along. Nor will I > be working on this in the near future; this is just a statement of > intent. > Thanks for the start. It's not where I would have gone voluntarily, but if we need to do this to stay in Ubuntu, then so be it. As to a separate port, I really would hate to support two versions. That's probably the reason 0.7.x has died. Why won't you be working on this in the near future? ...Ken
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