On Friday, August 23, 2013, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On 08/23/2013 03:32 PM, Christian Hammond wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 4:43 AM, Stephen Gallagher > > <step...@gallagherhome.com <javascript:;> <mailto: > step...@gallagherhome.com <javascript:;>>> 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 :)
Oh I know, just figured I'd talk about it a bit :) Christian -- -- Christian Hammond - chip...@chipx86.com Review Board - http://www.reviewboard.org Beanbag, Inc. - http://www.beanbaginc.com -- 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.