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

[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 improving that would be certainly very welcome.

On Saturday, 8 March 2014, Ravi Kumar <upman16 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 exciting to
> me. I see GSoC as a very good opportunity to learn and also be a part of
> and give something back to a community.
>
>
> I went through the Ideas page and was interested in porting the sugar core
> onto Python 3.x and I had a bunch of questions.
>
> 1. Are there any constraints the community places on the strategy that is
> to be
>     adopted to port the code or  are the strategies up to the person
> submitting the
>     proposal?
> 2. How reliable and thorough are the unit tests that are in place?
>
>
> Here's what I've thought through so far.
> Maintaining a code base in python 2 or in python 3 and then using 2to3 or
> 3to2 to give out releases is going to be problematic. Say someone files a
> bug against the Python 3.x version and the code for it was generated using
> 2to3, there wouldn't be a very good way to fix this.
>
> So my initial strategy is to strengthen the unit tests, make them
> compatible across 2.6-3.3, automate testing with python 2.6 and 3.3
> simultaneously with Tox or a similar tool, and then incrementally write
> polyglot using the six package and other methods to pass more and more unit
> tests until the whole of the codebase supports Python 2.6 through to 3.3.
> Then, improve and update the documentation so that the codebase is easy to
> maintain in the future.
>
> Thanks,
> Ravi Kumar
>


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Daniel Narvaez
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