On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Stefan Schwarzer <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> On 2014-11-02 19:39, Stefan Schwarzer wrote:
> >> There are certianly some rough edges with FiPy and
> >> Python 3 that we need to address.
> >
> > The first thing I'd like to see
>
> Oops. What I wanted to say: The first thing I'd like to see
> is to be able to install FiPy directly from PyPI in a plain
> virtualenv. That would already remove quite a few hurdles.
>

We should set that up so it is pip installable out of the box with Python 3
and also a conda recipe. It's in the issue tracker.


> I suppose many people will try the installation, see some
> `SyntaxError` (as I did) and assume Python 3 isn't supported
> at all. `INSTALLATION.txt` seems to indicate the same, as
> the information on Python 3 support is kind of "hidden" in
> `documentation/USAGE.txt`.
>

Also added this to the issue.


> You can also find a few tips on the common source code
> approach in my talk from EuroPython 2014:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vNr_ZzZZAk
> http://sschwarzer.com/download/python_2_3_europython2014.pdf
> :-)
>

Thanks for that. That's very helpful. Thanks for picking through FiPy and
pointing out the Python 3 issues. We'll hopefully get them ironed out.

-- 
Daniel Wheeler
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