Wiadomość napisana przez Tarek Ziadé w dniu 2011-05-23, o godz. 12:58:

2011/5/23 Łukasz Langa : ..

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I'm maintaining a configparser 3.2+ backport for 2.6-2.7 using 3to2.

Do you backport to 3.1 ?

Not really. I personally think people already using py3k will migrate sooner (even if they have to do it on their own) than the folk on 2.x. The new Ubuntu already ships with Python 3.2. As for Python 2.x I've learnt that keeping compatibility with a Python version without decorators, `io` library, abstract base classes, etc. would mean either diverging branches or reproducing and maintaining bits of the newer stdlib. This is something 3to2 won't help you with as it's out of scope for that tool. For configparser I only support 2.6+ and none the less the backport has a helpers module with a couple of things copied over from 2.7 or 3.1. There's also an external dependency on ordereddict, etc. You see where this is going. I've heard you're targetting 2.4 compatibility so be prepared that this is not going to be easy. -- Best regards, Łukasz Langa Senior Systems Architecture Engineer IT Infrastructure Department Grupa Allegro Sp. z o.o. Pomyśl o środowisku naturalnym zanim wydrukujesz tę wiadomość! Please consider the environment before printing out this e-mail.

2011/5/23 Tarek Ziadé :

2011/5/23 Łukasz Langa : ...

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I've heard you're targetting 2.4 compatibility so be prepared that this is not going to be easy.

yeah well, we might raise the bar to 2.5 and use some __future__ statements. I am not sure that keeping 2.4 support is that useful anymore.

Anyone still stuck with 2.4 at this point in time is probably going to struggle to switch their packaging support library from distutils to distutils2 anyway. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan@gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

Okay, this reply is getting off-topic, so I won't belabor the point (please email me directly if you want to discuss further). On May 23, 2011, at 08:25 AM, Fred Drake wrote:

2011/5/23 Łukasz Langa :

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The new Ubuntu already ships with Python 3.2.

Uptake on Ubuntu 11.04 will take longer than 10.10 uptake, given the reliability issues and the reaction to the new user interface.

You're not required to run the default desktop (Unity) of course. There are several options out of the box, including the classic desktop and Unity 2D, and there are a wide range of supported derivatives of Ubuntu offering additional desktops, such as KDE (Kubuntu) and Xfce (Xubuntu). Cheers, -Barry