[PATCHES] Port pytalloc to Python 3

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2014-12-05 at 10:08 +0100, Petr Viktorin wrote:
> 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.

Why not leave Samba until later then, if this is a concern?

Andrew Bartlett

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