Kenneth Graunke <[email protected]> writes: > Does anyone object to porting to Python 3.x (and dropping 2.x support)? > > Some useful data points: > - Debian stable has 3.1, testing/unstable have 3.2 > - Fedora 18 and Arch Linux have 3.3 > - Windows installers for 3.3 are available on python.org > - Mac OS X support for 3.3 is also available on python.org > > - numpy and mako are both available for Python 3 now. numpy is packaged > on Arch and Debian testing/unstable. Not sure how much of a pain it is > to get on Windows/OSX. > > - intel-gpu-tools now requires Python 3.x to build. > > Jon Severinsson did a great job in making a hybrid solution that works > with both Python 2 and 3, but I'm a bit nervous about some of it. For > example, unicode stuff has bitten us in the past, and supporting only > one major language version seems a lot easier to get right. It'd also > be a lot cleaner to just transition to Python 3.x.
Python 3 has been around since dec 2008, doing anything extra to support pre-python3 is an unreasonable burden in my opinion.
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