2013/1/6 Robert Layton <[email protected]>:
> On the other note, should we perhaps make this the focus of the next
> release? i.e. going through and making sure everything works in both 2.X and
> 3.Y

Couldn't we just start adding Py3 compatibility module by module and
only advertise it in the developer docs, so (potential) contributors
know it's a requirement but we don't have to support it yet? That way,
we don't need to get it right in one go, but every time we convert
something we add least get feedback from the build bots on 2.X compat.

When enough of it works, we can make it official. Hopefully, we could
salvage a lot of Olivier's work then, instead of starting over.

> As a question, what are the minimum values of X and Y for the next release?

We've tended to aim for what's available on the current Ubuntu
Long-Term Support (LTS) release, which is currently 12.04 shipping
Python 2.7 and 3.2. In practice, we're actually compatible with the
version before that, 10.04, which shipped 2.6 and (IIRC) 3.1.

When we dropped 2.5 compat, we voted on the ML, maybe we should do
that again for 2.6?

PS.: Speaking of Ubuntu, it seems they've postponed their migration to
Python 3 as the default Python to 14.04; I think they were originally
planning to do that in the coming 13.04.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Python/3

-- 
Lars Buitinck
Scientific programmer, ILPS
University of Amsterdam

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