<div dir="auto"><div>But isn't that already possible by porting? Someone can port to py3 and maintain only that. <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 10, 2020, 5:49 AM James Cameron <<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org">quozl@laptop.org</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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]<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">quozl@laptop.org</a>> 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]<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">quozl@laptop.org</a>> > 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]<a href="https://six.readthedocs.io/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://six.readthedocs.io/</a> > > > [2][3][4]<a href="https://github.com/benjaminp/six" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/benjaminp/six</a> > > > > > > Regards, > > > Sumit > > > [t]ᐧ > > > > > > References: > > > > > > [1] [4][5]<a href="https://six.readthedocs.io/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://six.readthedocs.io/</a> > > > [2] [5][6]<a href="https://github.com/benjaminp/six" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/benjaminp/six</a> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Sugar-devel mailing list > > > [6][7]<a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > > > [7][8]<a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > > > > -- > > James Cameron > > [8][9]<a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a> > > > > References: > > > > [1] mailto:[10]<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">quozl@laptop.org</a> > > [2] [11]<a href="https://six.readthedocs.io/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://six.readthedocs.io/</a> > > [3] [12]<a href="https://github.com/benjaminp/six" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/benjaminp/six</a> > > [4] [13]<a href="https://six.readthedocs.io/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://six.readthedocs.io/</a> > > [5] [14]<a href="https://github.com/benjaminp/six" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/benjaminp/six</a> > > [6] mailto:[15]<a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > > [7] [16]<a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > > [8] [17]<a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a> > > -- > James Cameron > [18]<a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a> > > References: > > [1] mailto:<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">quozl@laptop.org</a> > [2] mailto:<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">quozl@laptop.org</a> > [3] <a href="https://six.readthedocs.io/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://six.readthedocs.io/</a> > [4] <a href="https://github.com/benjaminp/six" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/benjaminp/six</a> > [5] <a href="https://six.readthedocs.io/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://six.readthedocs.io/</a> > [6] <a href="https://github.com/benjaminp/six" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/benjaminp/six</a> > [7] mailto:<a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > [8] <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > [9] <a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a> > [10] mailto:<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">quozl@laptop.org</a> > [11] <a href="https://six.readthedocs.io/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://six.readthedocs.io/</a> > [12] <a href="https://github.com/benjaminp/six" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/benjaminp/six</a> > [13] <a href="https://six.readthedocs.io/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://six.readthedocs.io/</a> > [14] <a href="https://github.com/benjaminp/six" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/benjaminp/six</a> > [15] mailto:<a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > [16] <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > [17] <a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a> > [18] <a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a> -- James Cameron <a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a> </blockquote></div></div></div>