Python 3 packaging

[Tim Lauridsen]

On 11/11/2009 01:13 AM, David Malcolm wrote:
> I'm working on a python 3 stack for Fedora 13, parallel-installable with
> the default python 2 stack [1]
>
> I've attempted to package python 3, and package some python modules for
> python 3.  So far, I've got a "python3-rpm", a "python3-lxml", and two
> different ways of packaging "python3-setuptools", though none of these
> are actually in our CVS yet [2].
>
> Thanks everyone for your help so far.
>
> In doing so, I've been writing some proposals on packaging guidelines
> for Python 3 - both for secondary python runtimes, and for modules for
> them.
>
> You can see what I've written so far here:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Python3
>
> Obviously this is a work in progress but hopefully makes sense as far as
> it goes.
>
> I've also written a script to cover some of the automatable work that
> can given python-foo.spec will write a python3-foo.spec
>
> You can see the script here:
> http://dmalcolm.fedorapeople.org/python3-packaging/rpm2to3.py
>
> I got over-ambitious with this script: it can also be given a target
> srpm, and will then checkout the python 2 srpm, convert to python 3,
> then recursively walk the build requirements, building the python 3
> packages in mock, attemping to build all a stack all the way up to the
> given srpm... well, that was the theory.  However, most packages seem to
> need at least a little manual cleanup, and so I never managed to get far
> up the stack - and this is no substitute for actually engaging with the
> various upstream projects and working on python 3 support in the manner
> that each upstream wants (e.g. do they want a unified trunk for 2 and 3
> vs separate branches)
>
> Thoughts?
> Dave
>
>    

Look very nice, looking forward to test it, when the needed stuff hits 
the F13 repos.

Thanks for the good work.

Tim