[reportlab-users] Python 3000

[Dirk Holtwick]

Hi Andy,

I can fully understand your thoughts about this. Python 3000 will need a 
lot of time to take over from Python 2.x and especially the need of 
keeping two development versions is bad news for almost all Python 
projects.

Thanks for your clear statement.

Dirk

Andy Robinson schrieb:

> 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

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