please port to python3

[LocutusOfBorg]

Hi, I'm going to package this really useful tool for Debian, would it possible to port it to python3
thanks

[jmbr]

Hi, thanks for your interest. This is certainly possible but I cannot give you a concrete timeline for it yet.

[LocutusOfBorg]

Hi, you might want to use 2to3 to port it to python3 and 3to2 at build time to build the old package...
(or vice-versa)... do you think it is possible?

thanks

[jmbr]

Yes, this appears to be reasonably straight-forward. I'll get back to
you soon.

On 08/07/2015 02:03 PM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:

Hi, you might want to use 2to3 to port it to python3 and 3to2 at build
time to build the old package...
(or vice-versa)... do you think it is possible?

thanks

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[LocutusOfBorg]

Hint: using 3to2 means probably just adding something like line 96 to your setup.py file
https://github.com/PyGithub/PyGithub/blob/master/setup.py

I package halberd for Slackware Linux. I am also interested in providing python 3 support. Any status on this?

[jmbr]

Thank you for your interest and for packaging Halberd.

I currently don't have time to do active development on the program but I'd be willing to review and merge a patch or pull request that provides Python 3 support.

Ok good to know. I will add it to my to do list. Thanks for your quick response!

[fabaff]

Python 2 will be EOL soon.

To be able to ship halberd in the future with Fedora support for Python 3 is needed. I guess that this is the case for all other distributions too.

[LocutusOfBorg]

Debian will drop it too if it doesn't get ported to Python3 before next stable (~2 years)

[LocutusOfBorg]

Hello, the package is getting autoremoved from Debian testing in some days...

[fabaff]

Same for Fedora...