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

[James Cameron]

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
>     >
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>     > 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/
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>     James Cameron
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> 
> 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/
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