Python3 and modern waf! (was: Re: waf update to 1.9.15)

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2018-02-05 at 11:18 -0700, David Mulder via samba-technical
wrote:
> Noel Power wrote some patches for the python c-api modules that weren't
> building, and now we can build and install samba, completely without
> python2 (still WIP, of course). The patches are all pushed to my branch
> on github.
> 
> On 02/02/2018 01:53 PM, David Mulder via samba-technical wrote:
> > I've got it building exclusively python3 now! It dies in
> > source4/param/provision.c where aught to, since that module hasn't been
> > converted to python3 yet. I've pushed everything to my python3_ports branch.
> > 
> > On 02/02/2018 10:22 AM, David Mulder via samba-technical wrote:
> > > Here's my branch I'm working from:
> > > 
> > > https://github.com/dmulder/samba/tree/python3_ports
> > > 
> > > I've merged in your branch on a python3 only system (python2 is not
> > > installed), and I've started picking away at everything that fails under
> > > python3.

This is very exciting.  Please do make sure everything comes with t
ests and the new contributors do the DCO thing and everyone signs off
their commits by the time the branch becomes final. 

Thanks!

Andrew Bartlett
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