python-2.6 and python-3.x

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Sat Apr 4 01:37:28 UTC 2009


On Saturday, April 04 2009, Kevin Kofler said:
> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > I had the fortune to attend pycon this past week and went to a talk
> > about python-2.6 compatibility with python-3.
> 
> I still think a compat package is the only viable approach, just like for
> GTK+ 1 and 2 or for Qt/KDE 3 and 4.
> 
> The language is very different, so it's pretty much nontrivial to port all
> the Python programs in Fedora, of which there are a lot.

It's also pretty non-trivial to include compat modules for every python
binding that is shipped.  It's not just like GTK+ 1 vs 2 or KDE3 vs
KDE4.

If only it were so simple

Jeremy




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