On 30 March 2012 17:21, Kenneth Loafman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Ubuntu is being aggressive, agreed. Their real must-have goal is to drop it for the 14.04 LTS in two years. Getting it done for 12.10 in 8 months might be a soft goal. I'll know more about precisely how aggressive we'll be for 12.10 after UDS in May. But Barry Warsaw is articulating a push now for it. I think he wants to lead the ecosystem towards Python 3 by example (and patches). Part of this work is also to identify duplicity dependencies that don't have Python 3 ports yet either and provide patches there. So a fair bit of work indeed. > 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. If Ubuntu really wants to push for 12.10, I suspect they'll be willing to carry a patch for at least one cycle as long as the patch isn't a dead-end. Which means as an upstream, you wouldn't have to abandon RHEL 5 just yet. I don't think duplicity code is changing so fast that such an extensive patch would be *too* hard to maintain on top of trunk. > As to a separate port, I really would hate to support two versions. That's > probably the reason 0.7.x has died. Agreed. And that's why I want to do it all in the same codebase, without py2to3 or anything. I hope that will reduce the maintenance burden. > Why won't you be working on this in the near future? Oh, just because I'm likely busy with Ubuntu 12.04 and other work through April. -mt _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~duplicity-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~duplicity-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
