[Freeipa-devel] Heads up: Samba considering port to Python 3

[Petr Viktorin]

Hello,
I'm slowly starting the work to port Samba's bindings to Python 3, and 
since FreeIPA depends on them, this is relevant here.

Currently the consensus on the Samba list seems to be that support for 
Python 2 will be dropped shortly after the port. If that happens in 
Samba 4.3, this would give us about a year to port FreeIPA and all its 
dependencies.

Keep in mind that this is a very early heads-up. Samba build 
infrastructure improvements seem inevitable, and if the needed changes 
end up trivial enough, perhaps Samba can reconsider supporting both 
Python versions for some longer time.

-- 
Petr³