[Distutils] [Distribute] Python 3 porting effort - plans proposal for 0.7/0.8

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Friday, 24 July, 2009, at 03:59PM, "Leonardo Santagada" <santagada at gmail.com> wrote:
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>On Jul 24, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote:
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>> 2009/7/24 Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>:
>>> I can postpone the 0.6 release for a week or so, until this is  
>>> ready, so we can
>>> have 0.6 for Python 3.
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>> I think we should make a 2.x only release first. The changes to
>> support Python 3 are small but numerous and since the test-coverage
>> isn't that great I'm worried it will insert subtle bugs. I would be
>> less worried if we can have a longer test-period after these changes.
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>> On the other hand, if we do merge these changes before the 0.6 release
>> they will quickly get tested. ;)
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>People using python 3x don't have support for setuptools so they would  
>understand if you release early a beta version. And I think you  
>should, not having setutools is a problem for every package being  
>converted to python 3.1

The issue with merging python3-related changes is not that the python3 port would have a beta-status, but that there is a risk that this will accidently break python2 support.

I agree with Lennart that a 2.x only release would be better, especially because it would be possible to do a 0.7 alpha/beta release short after the stable 0.6 release.

Ronald
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>Leonardo Santagada
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