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[Matt Fischer <matthew.fischer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/29/2012 06:02 PM, Jono Bacon wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Matt Fischer
> <matthew.fischer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > So sometime in September I'm planning on starting this effort for the
> > daemon.  I'd like a goal of 0.4 to be "ready for python3".  Any thoughts?
> I also think that this is something we are going to need to start
> thinking about. The big challenge here is twisted which is Python 2,
> but I am also concious that we can continue to support Precise where
> possible. As such, we could port the codebase to Python 3 but this
> might be difficult to deliver to Precise users.
>
> Matt, if you could take some time to look into what work would be
> involved in the port and put together a branch, that would be awesome,
> and a 0.4 goal makes sense. :-)
>
>      Jono

I think the solution will be to make Precise use python3.  Barry Warsaw 
did a presentation today for our team and said that maintaining 2 trees 
is a bad idea, but I will query him on what the best approach is for 
precise.  I think the plan should be something like:

0.4 -still using python2, but ready for python3 (runs as python2 with 
the -3 flag without warnings)

Then, whenever twistd is ported, maybe by 0.5, switch everyone to python3.

I'll let you know what Barry recommends.

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Matthew (Matt) Fischer
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