Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2014 - Porting the Sugar core onto Python 3.x info

2014-03-20 Thread Ravi Kumar
Hello everyone, I'm sorry for not replying for such a long time, I had exams going on and had problems with the Internet for the past couple of days. I've looked at all the dependencies and everything except telepathy-python is available for python 3. So I plan on porting telepathy python in the

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2014 - Porting the Sugar core onto Python 3.x info

2014-03-09 Thread Ravi Kumar
Hello Daniel, So Improving the unit tests before the actual porting is a must, duely noted. If only =3.3 is supported, all the activities HAVE to be ported to =3.3 as well. Don't you think supporting 2.7+ for a while will enable a smoother transition? I also looked at the dependencies, telepathy

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2014 - Porting the Sugar core onto Python 3.x info

2014-03-09 Thread Sam Parkinson
On Mar 9, 2014 7:23 PM, Ravi Kumar upma...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Daniel, So Improving the unit tests before the actual porting is a must, duely noted. If only =3.3 is supported, all the activities HAVE to be ported to =3.3 as well. Don't you think supporting 2.7+ for a while will enable a

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2014 - Porting the Sugar core onto Python 3.x info

2014-03-09 Thread Daniel Narvaez
On 9 March 2014 09:23, Ravi Kumar upma...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Daniel, So Improving the unit tests before the actual porting is a must, duely noted. If only =3.3 is supported, all the activities HAVE to be ported to =3.3 as well. Don't you think supporting 2.7+ for a while will enable a

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2014 - Porting the Sugar core onto Python 3.x info

2014-03-09 Thread Ravi Kumar
We could port telepathy-python, it's a fairly small codebase. I don't think it will be ported, the latest commit is four years old! https://github.com/PabloCastellano/telepathy-python/tree/examples/src But I didn't quite understand what exactly telepathy does. So could you point me to some

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2014 - Porting the Sugar core onto Python 3.x info

2014-03-09 Thread Daniel Narvaez
On 9 March 2014 12:50, Ravi Kumar upma...@gmail.com wrote: We could port telepathy-python, it's a fairly small codebase. I don't think it will be ported, the latest commit is four years old! https://github.com/PabloCastellano/telepathy-python/tree/examples/src It sounds like telepathy-python

[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2014 - Porting the Sugar core onto Python 3.x info

2014-03-08 Thread Ravi Kumar
Hello everyone, I'm Ravi Kumar, an undergrad Computer Science and Engineering student based in Bangalore. I'm familiar with Source code management with git and proficient with Python, Ruby and C, although I haven't made any real contributions to open-source projects. So this is all the more

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2014 - Porting the Sugar core onto Python 3.x info

2014-03-08 Thread Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn
Python 2.6? Who uses it??In my opinion: the older version that we must support must be Python 2.7 Regards! Alan Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 01:40:45 +0530 From: upma...@gmail.com To: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2014 - Porting the Sugar core onto Python 3.x info

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2014 - Porting the Sugar core onto Python 3.x info

2014-03-08 Thread Daniel Narvaez
I think supporting multiple python versions would be too much of a burden, we are busy enough supporting three toolkits :) Fedora 18 seems to have 3.3 so I think it would be fine to support = 3.3. The unit tests in place are not really thorough, we started writing them only recently. Help