Hi.
On 06/25/2014 05:27 PM, James Antill wrote:
On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 16:49 +0200, Tomas Radej wrote:
FYI: This message pertains to urlgrabber, whose website instructed me to
post to this list.
Hi, all.
In context of the large ongoing effort to port Fedora's core parts to
Python 3, I took a look at urlgrabber, as some key packages depend on
it, and we need it running on Python 3.
I would like to ask you if you are OK with me doing the port of the
package to Python 3 in the first place, and if so, whether there are
some non-obvious constraints or limitations. Another question is what
versions of Python you intend to support, since I inferred from the code
comments that some pretty old versions of Python are (or were) being
calculated with. I would submit patches for your review and potential
inclusion as a matter of course.
Well, yum is not being ported to py3 and AIUI dnf doesn't use
urlgrabber. So there are currently no plans to do anything with
urlgrabber, that I know of.
Of course, I understand that the yum community is not the target
audience of such a change. The packages in question which require
urlgrabber are e. g. anaconda, pykickstart or virt-manager.
My intention is that *I* would perform the change, while keeping
compatibility with older versions of Python through the usage of six and
other established ways. This is the reason why I asked which versions
are intended to be still supported should the change happen, because
having the code run on e. g. both Python 2.4 and 3.4 is a bit tricky, to
say the least.
> It'd probably be best if the main package that is going to be using
> urlgrabber in F22+ owned it.
If by 'owning' you mean bundling, that's rather not possible, because a
multitude of packages depend on it, as stated above.
Cheers, Tomas
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