On 08/23/2013 03:32 PM, Christian Hammond wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 4:43 AM, Stephen Gallagher > <step...@gallagherhome.com <mailto:step...@gallagherhome.com>> wrote: > > On 08/22/2013 05:02 PM, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > > Ah, well, I was wanting to rewrite the whole thing in Python > anyway :-). > > (Trying to do that and skirt around where RBTools wants a deprecated > > optparse... now that's interesting...) > > > > optparse is deprecated, not removed. It's not going to see any new > development, but last I heard it's going to remain available > indefinitely. Also, as python 2.7 is the last release in the Python 2 > line, it's pretty clear that it's never going to be removed from that > series. That gives ReviewBoard (and anyone consuming RBTools) until at > least 2015 to deal with the migration (since the Python upstream has > committed to bug-fix support of Python 2.7 for five years after its > release). Beyond that, I know of certain enterprise OSes that will > likely extend the usable life of Python themselves. > > With that in mind, though: Christian, will ReviewBoard 1.8 be supporting > Python 3.x? > > > Right, it should be safe to depend on RBTools with optparse and all that > for some time. We have a lot of people relying on Python 2.x, and will > probably support it for quite a while. > > Review Board 1.8 will not support Python 3.x. While Django is now > starting to support it, we still have a number of dependencies we need > to check on, several of which likely need work, and nobody has even > begun that, let alone tested any of it with Review Board. There's going > to be a lot of work needed on our codebase as well. It's going to be > quite an undertaking (one that I very much want help with). > > I'm spending almost every waking moment of 1.8, and there's still a lot > of work to do on it. I don't want to delay the release any further than > it's already delayed. Maybe we can prioritize this for the next big release. >
Sorry, I should have been clear that this was a curiosity, not a request :) -- Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at http://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "reviewboard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.