[reportlab-users] Python 3000

[Andy Robinson]

2008/12/4 Dirk Holtwick <dirk.holtwick at gmail.com>:

> So what are you planning? And what would be the roadmap and the milestones

> and when to expect them? Did someone already try to migrate and has

> experiences with this?


I think the safest statement is "we will do nothing for at least 3
months".  That way nobody can criticise us for getting behind ;-)

Seriously, anyone wanting to work on it can have SVN access and I am
sure Robin will be playing around too.  But a production-quality PIL
is a prerequisite. And we want to focus our limited time on
deployment, docs and other stuff already requested for the next 3
months.

Guido wants people to release "compatible" packages.  The same code
base cannot serve Python 2.3-2.6 and Python 3.0 and we also don't have
the time for two major, diverging branches.     So the real question
is whether we do a "modest" ReportLab 3.0 with the minimum necessary
changes; or (my preference) concentrate on creating the best library
we can on Python 3000 without the constraints of compatibility with
everything written before.  It is a rare chance for a break with the
past.

Opinions most welcome, but my first paragraph is unlikely to change ;-)


- Andy