On 21 June 2013 22:43, Chinmay Naik <[email protected]> wrote: > For our bot, we will be having normal functions like creating/updating > items, claims, sources etc.(the Trunk seems sufficient for these > functions). I have started coding with the Trunk but now i am a bit > concerned about the lifetime about Trunk branch. Any chances it may be get > outdated and then i would have to port to Release?? > It's mostly the backend code that is much cleaner in rewrite. As such, it is much easier to add/extend functionality, which can be useful with the changes that happen to wikidata - after all, the entire infrastructure is still somewhat under development.
Although trunk development will not stop soon, I would suggest to start new wikidata bots using rewrite, for the reasons above. I am also concerned about the pace of development of the Rewrite branch. > From another thread, I have noticed about changes to editEntity() to create > items etc... > This is a change to the *wikidata api*. As an end-user of pywikipedia - trunk or rewrite - you should not notice these changes. As such, I am not sure why you connect this to 'the pace of development of the Rewrite branch'. On 22 June 2013 21:37, Strainu <[email protected]> wrote: > 2013/6/22 Bináris <[email protected]>: > > We have no statistics on users but I think for some > > reason that trunk is more widely used. > > The reason is python2, at least for me :) > Could you elaborate on that? Unless you are running an ancient version of python2 (<= 2.5), there should not be any problems running rewrite. Merlijn
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