On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 04:38:08PM +0100, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
[...] then I'll merge this to trunk and do a 3.0b5 release as a
Python 3-only application. Mailman 3 will not be bilingual so Python 2 support will be dropped.
Wow. I am very surprised. So we went from "Python3 compatibility is not on the blocker list for Mailman 3.0" to "Mailman 3.0 will only work on Python 3". That's quite a change. This means I must now port HyperKitty and Kittystore to Python3, check that we don't use Py2-only libraries, etc. And mailman.client must be ported too, since it does import stuff from mailman for testing purposes. I think Postorious is safe, but that must be verified (I believe it imports the testing framework from mailman.client and thus must be ported too).
This also means that mailman 3 will pretty much only not work on server-oriented distro (except probably Debian that likely ships a python 3 version, although not being involved in Debian, I do not know for sure). For the record, neither RHEL7 nor SL7 nor CentOS7 currently have a python3 stack...
And I thought the 3.0 release was almost there. I must say this is rather discouraging.
Same for me.
Pierre