[Sugar-devel] Need your views, ASAP.

[Walter Bender]

With all due respect James, we need to keep moving with upstream. So
we need to look at Python 3. We also need to do it in a way that won't
break all the old activities, hence the distinction between Sugar and
the toolkit(s).

regards

-walter

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:47 AM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kamal,
>
> I cannot speak for the whole community but my understanding is that Python 3
> is not at all backward compatible with the Python we use now. If every
> Activity we have had to be rewritten in Python 3 that would be a huge
> impact.
>
> You may be familiar with my book:
>
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/make-your-own-sugar-activities/
>
> I recently (like a month ago) updated the book to use GTK3 in the examples
> rather than GTK2. That was a big, but necessary, effort. The current Sugar
> supports both GTK2 and GTK3, so no Activities need to be rewritten. GTK3 is
> supposed to give better support for tablets and touch screens and of course
> we want to use the latest supported software.
>
> In any case, while using GTK3 over time may have a big impact in the short
> term it doesn't break anything. I'm not sure we could say the same thing
> about rewriting Sugar to use Python 3.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Kamal Kaur <kamal.kaur188 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all members,
>>
>> I need help with the first question in "You and Community" section. As
>> I'll be working for project "Port to python 3", I need three answers,
>> one of which will I get from the mentors and other from memberss So
>> the members and mentors reading this message, Please give your answer
>> regarding what will be the impact after completion of my project on
>> community? I need to add this answer there and it should be of 1-3
>> paragraphs.
>>
>> There are four outlined steps:
>> Step 1. Make use of GTK3 instead of GTK2 because sugar and the apps use
>> it.
>> Step 2. Port the Sugar core to python3.
>> Step 3. Developing a robust test suite.
>> Step 4: Port an existing sugar activity to python3 and document process
>>
>> Please tell me what are your views about the effect on community after
>> completion of this project?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> --
>> Kamaljeet Kaur
>>
>> kamalkaur188.wordpress.com
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