[Sugar-devel] Migration to Python 3

[Walter Bender]

We will keep the Python 2 libraries around.

-walter

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
wrote:

> 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:
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Sam Parkinson <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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).
>>
>
> 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
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sam
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 1:56 AM, Dave Crossland < <dave at lab6.com>
>> 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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