On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Michael Terry <[email protected]> wrote:
> I started a blueprint for this, to help break the work into smaller > chunks: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/duplicity/+spec/python3 > > -mt > > On 31 March 2012 09:28, Michael Terry <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 31 March 2012 07:40, Kenneth Loafman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So, to get this straight, we may be able to supply a 3.2 patch in the > Ubuntu > >> release, yet supply 2.4 code for everyone else? That is still a second > >> version unless I'm missing something very subtle. No real objections > during > >> the transition time, but I'll want to pull those together ASAP. > > > > OK sure, it would be a second version. I'm just saying that I'd bear > > the maintenance burden for it on the Ubuntu side until you were OK > > with dropping RHEL 5. At which point we can go back down to one > > version. > > > > Oh and one thing that may be confusing. When I said 2.6+ and 3.2+, I > > meant with the same code base. So we'd probably have some small > > script that distributors/installers could use that changed the > > /usr/bin/python at the top of any Python scripts to > > /usr/bin/pythonX.X, for whatever version that distributor wanted to > > use (RHEL would set to 2.6, Ubuntu would set to 3.2). So we'd really > > just be shipping 2.6+ code that happened to also work on 3.2+. If > > that's clear. > > > > And I wouldn't worry about ASAP. There's no super urgency here unless > > you want a good stretch of testing time. But since the patch won't be > > upstream for a bit, the testing will likely just happen for Ubuntu > > users during the next development cycle. Plus, Barry is making noise > > about getting Python 2 off the CD for 12.10, but at UDS, the scope of > > the work may cause him to push that goal back a cycle. So actual > > deadline for me here is still uncertain. > > > > -mt > Thanks for the good explanations and the blueprint. This is going to be a bit of work, but it will be worth it in the long run. ...Ken
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