A plan to get to py3 (was: Re: Pure python3 for the AD DC for Samba 4.10 (5.0))

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2018-08-09 at 10:31 +0200, Stefan Metzmacher wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> > Then we have a Samba that builds and runs with python3 and we have
> > confidence that the python2 only build still works.  Then we can
> > discuss if we need to maintain that, after it becomes the secondary
> > target rather than while it is the 'primary'.
> > 
> > Then remove the EXTRA_PYTHON thing.  Metze indicated that he was
> > willing to accept that we only do only python at a time, and this is a
> > reasonable step.  I hope to understand why we need python 2.7 in the
> > long term, and get consensus to remove it, but this is useful anyway.
> 
> For the samba build that's fine to remove the EXTRA_PYTHON thing
> and use a separate autobuild instead.

Good.  This will help a lot.

> But for tdb, talloc, tevent, ldb we need to keep it, I guess
> it's fine if it only works with the main python being 2.7 and
> extra python 3, it's not required to get the reverse working.
> 
> Or we need a different way to generate python bindings for both versions
> on top of a single C library.

Can't we do just the same, have anybody who needs both just run the
build twice?

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett
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