[Samba] Plans to migrate to python3

John Hixson john at ixsystems.com
Wed Apr 5 04:17:36 UTC 2017


On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 12:26:35PM +1300, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-03-24 at 08:04 -0700, John Hixson via samba wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:47:51PM +1300, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 16:23 -0700, John Hixson via samba wrote:
> > > > Are there plans to migrate the samba python code to python3? If
> > > > so,
> > > > is
> > > > there a roadmap? If not, why not? 
> > > 
> > > There is work ongoing for this, thanks to a number of patient and
> > > persistent engineers at Red Hat. 
> > > 
> > > It isn't likely to be finished for a while, but progress is being
> > > made.
> > > 
> > > Assistance in the process would be most welcome.
> > 
> > I would be glad to help with this effort ;-)
> 
> Thanks.  How would you like to assist?  
> 
> We essentially need more parts of Samba migrated to python3 compatible
> code, both in the C bindings (most of the work is in this area) and the
> python code.  All changes need tests, including where the existing code
> is not tested (which can make this quite a bit of work). 
> 
> Have a look over the latest set of changes to get an idea what kind of
> work is required.

I'll take a look at the code when I have some free time and let you guys
know what I can do.

- John

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew Bartlett



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