[PATCHES] Build pytalloc for two Python versions at once, port to py3

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On 19 March 2015 9:10:38 am GMT+00:00, Petr Viktorin <pviktori at redhat.com> wrote:
>On 03/18/2015 05:17 AM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>> On Tue, 2015-03-17 at 13:28 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>>
>>> I think what Andrew is getting at is that the main reason we care
>about Python3
>>> support is to accomodate others like yourself. For Samba itself
>Python2 works
>>> just fine, and we would wait a few more years with porting to or
>supporting
>>> Python 3 if that was our only concern.
>>>
>>> Traditionally Samba hasn't done well with projects where there is
>only one
>>> developer that cares about it, but that impacts others (e.g. ntdb).
>The
>>> other developers are burdened by a new set of hoops to jump through
>when
>>> working on Samba, and the code tends to bitrot without the person
>>> that championed it.
>>
>> Thanks Jelmer,
>>
>> That puts it very well.
>
>Are you now saying that supporting Python 3 in thestand-alone libraries
>
>is a bad idea?
I don't think that is a bad idea for the standalone libraries. We're concerned
about the longevity of dual-python support though, especially in Samba itself. 

>Can you tell me what hoops are a burden, so I can try removing them?
Supporting two python versions at the same time and all the issues that
come with that. I think the specifics have been well covered in this thread.

Cheers,

Jelmer