[Sugar-devel] Migration to Python 3

[Tony Anderson]

What is the impact of this on our library of Sugar activities. Will we 
install both Pythons?

Tony

On 06/29/2016 04:53 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
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> On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Sam Parkinson 
> <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com <mailto:sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Sugar is using python2.7 now.
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>     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.
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>     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?
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>     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).
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>
> They didn't quite finish, but they got far enough to demonstrate that 
> it will not be too difficult. Maybe we target Python 3 for the release 
> following this one?
>
> -walter
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>
>     Thanks,
>     Sam
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>     On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 1:56 AM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com
>     <mailto:dave at lab6.com>> wrote:
>>     Hi
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>>     http://lwn.net/Articles/690676/ <http://lwn.net/Articles/690676/>
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>>         "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.
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>>     Has Sugar moved to GTK3 completely?
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>>     What is the status of migration from Python 2 to Python 3?
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>>     -- 
>>     Cheers
>>     Dave
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