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[David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>]

On 02/23/2012 12:47 PM, Treeve Jelbert wrote:
> i have a need to upgrade some spells to use python3
> 
> Rather than make changes to several individual spells, as part of this I 
> have 
> a script which will change all python spells to allow either python3 or 
> python2.
> 
> As far as I can tell there are only 3 spells which specificly depend on 
> python3.
> 
> I realise that most of the spells are not tested against python3.
> 
> Most people only have python2, so would not notice any difference.
> I doubt if many people only have python3.
> 
> 
> Those people  who try to use python3 will eventually discover a few spells 
> that do not work. Fixes will be found in due course.
> 
> 
> I would make the initial changes in a branch, but I think that this should 
> have a very short life, otherwise it would live forever as some of the 
> spells 
> would never be tested.
> 
> Any thoughts?

I think it's okay to try to upgrade everything to python3, but we need
to have a concerted testing effort to catch spells before they get into
stable.

I would recommend putting together a bug set, and make it blocking on
getting those spells updated into stable. Like, don't release new
stable, until they've been verified.

David

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