[PATCHES] Port pytalloc to Python 3

[Petr Viktorin]

On 11/28/2014 07:36 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 07:13:42PM +0100, Petr Viktorin wrote:
>> On 11/28/2014 06:29 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>>> Hi Petr,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 03:47:30PM +0100, Petr Viktorin wrote:
>>>> I've seen a discussion on this list from May 2013 [0] with some kind of
>>>> consensus that porting Samba is inevitable, and would be hard, but there was
>>>> no rush. Some posts there cite a wiki page [1] that used to warn against
>>>> moving prematurely, but now it says:
>>>>> Python 2.x is legacy, Python 3.x is the present and future of the language
>>> Thanks for working on this!
>>>
>>> I think supporting Python2 and Python3 simultaneously makes sense at least for
>>> our standalone libraries (talloc, ldb, tdb).
>>>
>>> Maintaining support for two versions of Python at the same time
>>> is painful and very costly. If we switch to Python3, we should drop
>>> Python2 shortly afterwards if not at the same time.
>>>
>>> With my Debian/Ubuntu hat on, dropping Python2 support is fine. What do other
>>> people think? Python3 was released in 2008, so surely it's made its way into
>>> most distributions at this point..
>>>
>>> A migration would also need to be coordinated with OpenChange, who
>>> have code that uses our Python bindings (all in Python2).
>>
>> -1
>> There are more projects that use the bindings, and they will need time to be
>> ported. Some have other dependencies that aren't there yet. I know FreeIPA
>> uses the bindings, and porting that definitely won't happen overnight.
> Which major projects are there, just beside OpenChange and FreeIPA?
>
> I do of course want to accomodate the projects that use our bindings, so let's
> see if we can come up with a plan that is satisfactory for both of us. :)
>
> Is there any reason you couldn't just depend on a newer version of Samba once
> you migrate FreeIPA to Python3? Why is it essential for you Samba support multiple
> Python versions?

Well, that would essentially force the FreeIPA team to maintain a fork 
of Samba until FreeIPA is ported. And porting FreeIPA's dependencies 
might take some time.


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Petr³