[Sugar-devel] Found this interesting python package to for activity compatibility

[Sumit Srivastava]

But isn't that already possible by porting? Someone can port to py3 and
maintain only that.

On Mon, Aug 10, 2020, 5:49 AM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> So that they can continue to maintain one source code that will
> run on either Python 2 or Python 3.
>
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 05:33:47AM +0530, Sumit Srivastava wrote:
> > If there's only little advantage for porting to six over porting to py3,
> why
> > are people still using six?
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020, 5:25 AM James Cameron <[1]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> >
> >     No, we're not using it everywhere.  It is easier to port to Python 3
> >     than to port using Six, and there's little advantage to having an
> >     activity source code compatible with both versions of Python.
> >
> >     For new installs of Sugar, or when using Fedora, Debian, or Ubuntu,
> >     only Python 3 activities are used.  This is because those
> >     distributions have chosen for cost reasons to remove support rather
> >     than take over security maintenance of Python from the Python
> >     Foundation.  (Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the other paid enterprise
> >     Linux distributions have kept Python 2 available.)
> >
> >     For OLPC OS, both Python 2 and Python 3 activities can be used.
> >
> >     On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 04:42:36AM +0530, Sumit Srivastava wrote:
> >     > Awesome! Are we using six everywhere?
> >     >
> >     > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020, 4:41 AM James Cameron <[1][2]
> quozl at laptop.org>
> >     wrote:
> >     >
> >     >     Yes, well done, it is very useful.  We have used Six on the
> Sugar
> >     >     Toolkit so that Python 2 activities can continue to run.
> >     >
> >     >     On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 01:10:06AM +0530, Sumit Srivastava
> wrote:
> >     >     > Hi all,
> >     >     >
> >     >     > I think this might be useful for making activities
> compatible. I
> >     found
> >     >     this
> >     >     > while reading the codebase of a software I was using.
> >     >     >
> >     >     > [1][2][3]https://six.readthedocs.io/
> >     >     > [2][3][4]https://github.com/benjaminp/six
> >     >     >
> >     >     > Regards,
> >     >     > Sumit
> >     >     > [t]ᐧ
> >     >     >
> >     >     > References:
> >     >     >
> >     >     > [1] [4][5]https://six.readthedocs.io/
> >     >     > [2] [5][6]https://github.com/benjaminp/six
> >     >
> >     >     > _______________________________________________
> >     >     > Sugar-devel mailing list
> >     >     > [6][7]Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> >     >     > [7][8]http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> >     >
> >     >     --
> >     >     James Cameron
> >     >     [8][9]http://quozl.netrek.org/
> >     >
> >     > References:
> >     >
> >     > [1] mailto:[10]quozl at laptop.org
> >     > [2] [11]https://six.readthedocs.io/
> >     > [3] [12]https://github.com/benjaminp/six
> >     > [4] [13]https://six.readthedocs.io/
> >     > [5] [14]https://github.com/benjaminp/six
> >     > [6] mailto:[15]Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> >     > [7] [16]http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> >     > [8] [17]http://quozl.netrek.org/
> >
> >     --
> >     James Cameron
> >     [18]http://quozl.netrek.org/
> >
> > References:
> >
> > [1] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> > [2] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> > [3] https://six.readthedocs.io/
> > [4] https://github.com/benjaminp/six
> > [5] https://six.readthedocs.io/
> > [6] https://github.com/benjaminp/six
> > [7] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [8] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> > [9] http://quozl.netrek.org/
> > [10] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> > [11] https://six.readthedocs.io/
> > [12] https://github.com/benjaminp/six
> > [13] https://six.readthedocs.io/
> > [14] https://github.com/benjaminp/six
> > [15] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [16] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> > [17] http://quozl.netrek.org/
> > [18] http://quozl.netrek.org/
>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.netrek.org/
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/attachments/20200810/c5ebf258/attachment.htm>