On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Ondřej Čertík <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > From my understanding, it's easiest to do this if we don't support Python
> > 3.2, and even easier if we don't support Python 2.6 (but we should
> continue
> > to support 2.6 for a while).
> >
> > I am -1 to this, just because we already have 2to3 working, and so we
> should
> > not waste our time fixing what isn't broken.
>
>
> It's not a big deal now, so we can revisit this later. I posted it
> here to think about this.
>
> That being said, I can see many things that are broken, for example:
>
> * we need to ship the same tarball for Python 3.2 and 3.3 (and keep
> adding tarballs for higher version of Python) so that pip installs it
>
> * that we cannot ship just one tarball for all Python versions
>
> * that installing sympy (from git) into Python 3 takes a long time
>
> * If you want to hack using Python 3 (that implies in git), you can't.
> The only way is to hack in Python 2.7 and keep translating to Python
> 3. In fact the translation takes such a long time on my laptop, that I
> don't use Python 3 with sympy and git. It's nice to use the released
> tarball in Python 3 though, that works great.
>

It's worth pointing out that if you re-run use2to3, it only rebuilds the
files that have changed. While this may often be a lot, especially if you
don't run it very often, or if you checkout an old commit, if you are just
hacking around, it isn't much. You could even add a git hook that does it
automatically every time you checkout a commit.

I agree it could be faster, though. 2to3 maybe should have been written in
C.

Aaron Meurer


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