[Sugar-devel] Migration to Python 3

[Sam Parkinson]

Sugar is using python2.7 now.

I can assure you that Gtk+ (and all the other gi repository bits) work 
great with python3.  I recently wrote a reddit client in python3 and 
Gtk+ and it was just as easy as with python2.

I think think there was a previous GSoC project to investigate such a 
port.  I don't remember that they got a port done.  Who mentored that?  
What happened?

However, I'm pretty sure that they found we had 1 python2 dep; the 
deprecated python-telepathy module.  I'd be happy for us to take 
maintainership of the parts of the python-telepathy module that we use. 
 We just use the bit that gives us constants for the telepathy dbus 
interfaces, and the Channel class (which just wraps the dbus object 
constructor).

Thanks,
Sam

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 1:56 AM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/690676/
> 
>> "The goal is to reach 50% of [python] packages [working with Python 
>> 3] for Fedora 25, which is planned for release in November. There 
>> are various pieces that are still on Python 2, including some 
>> desktop toolkits. GTK+2 support will not be ported to Python 3, 
>> which affects GIMP, Inkscape, and Sugar that all have Python-based 
>> plugins. For the enterprise, Samba is one of the biggest projects 
>> that remains based on Python 2. Viktorin said he would "probably end 
>> up porting Samba", which was met with applause.
> 
> Has Sugar moved to GTK3 completely?
> 
> What is the status of migration from Python 2 to Python 3?
> 
> --
> Cheers
> Dave
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