From contactprashantat at gmail.com Tue Sep 7 15:03:39 2010 From: contactprashantat at gmail.com (Prashant Kumar) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 18:33:39 +0530 Subject: [Python-porting] Volunteer help for porting Message-ID: <AANLkTi=H9vFdOZycMA2kJfj3+uUpSxRiXTRM5E6c0PKF@mail.gmail.com> Hi everyone, My name is Prashant Kumar and I wish to contribute to the Python develoopment process by helping convert certain existing python over to python3k. Is there anyway I could obtain a list of libraries which need to be ported over to python3k, sorted by importance(by importance i mean packages which serve as a dependency for larger number of packages being more important). Thanks, Prashant Kumar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-porting/attachments/20100907/36884d4e/attachment.html> From martin at v.loewis.de Sun Sep 12 15:46:02 2010 From: martin at v.loewis.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=) Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 15:46:02 +0200 Subject: [Python-porting] Volunteer help for porting In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=H9vFdOZycMA2kJfj3+uUpSxRiXTRM5E6c0PKF@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=H9vFdOZycMA2kJfj3+uUpSxRiXTRM5E6c0PKF@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4C8CD99A.9000303@v.loewis.de> > Is there anyway I could obtain a list of libraries which need to be > ported over to python3k, sorted by importance(by importance i mean > packages which serve as a dependency for larger number of packages > being more important). Everybody has his own pet list. Depending on what domain you are working in, people typically cite: - web frameworks (Django, Zope, ...) - database adapters (postgres, mysql, oracle, ODBC, ...) - SciPy - Twisted - build infrastructures (setuptools, zc.buildout, virtualenv, ...) Having worked on some of these myself, I found that the biggest hurdle is to get the developers of these packages to accept Py3 changes. They (the changes) are often pervasive, so they (the developers) shy away of accepting them - even if they are shallow (as they typically are). If you pick an arbitrary piece from the list above, you may find that there is already a patch floating around, work in progress, or so. Don't make this stop you - it's better to get support for some package complete, instead of having lingering support around for years. E.g. I certainly wouldn't mind somebody helping me to complete the Django port. I guess we should start a poll on python.org, asking for packages that people want to see ported. Regards, Martin From zubin.mithra at gmail.com Sun Sep 12 18:18:38 2010 From: zubin.mithra at gmail.com (Zubin Mithra) Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:48:38 +0530 Subject: [Python-porting] Volunteer help for porting In-Reply-To: <4C8CD99A.9000303@v.loewis.de> References: <AANLkTi=H9vFdOZycMA2kJfj3+uUpSxRiXTRM5E6c0PKF@mail.gmail.com> <4C8CD99A.9000303@v.loewis.de> Message-ID: <AANLkTink0e3XZUf6KF-s03wkXY8hZALwgSb1FH2RCWdW@mail.gmail.com> > > E.g. I certainly wouldn't mind somebody helping me to complete the > Django port. > Could you point me towards the repository you are using for porting django over to Python3k? > > I guess we should start a poll on python.org, asking for packages > that people want to see ported. > > +1 . I think this is a great idea. zm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-porting/attachments/20100912/6aee3a42/attachment.html> From martin at v.loewis.de Sun Sep 12 19:02:45 2010 From: martin at v.loewis.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=) Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 19:02:45 +0200 Subject: [Python-porting] Volunteer help for porting In-Reply-To: <AANLkTink0e3XZUf6KF-s03wkXY8hZALwgSb1FH2RCWdW@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=H9vFdOZycMA2kJfj3+uUpSxRiXTRM5E6c0PKF@mail.gmail.com> <4C8CD99A.9000303@v.loewis.de> <AANLkTink0e3XZUf6KF-s03wkXY8hZALwgSb1FH2RCWdW@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4C8D07B5.2070308@v.loewis.de> Am 12.09.2010 18:18, schrieb Zubin Mithra: > E.g. I certainly wouldn't mind somebody helping me to complete the > Django port. > > > Could you point me towards the repository you are using for porting > django over to Python3k? Sure: http://bitbucket.org/loewis/django-3k/ Regards, Martin