[Scons-dev] Re PR #171

[anatoly techtonik]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> The whole ASCII string / Unicode codepoint sequence thing brings the
>> Python 2/Python 3 thing to a head. If we want a codebase that runs under
>> both Python 2 and Python 3 then we almost certainly have to use six to
>> provide the indirection layer for things like strings (unless we write
>> our own). Alternatively the Python 3 codebase can be separate (which is
>> what Anatoly was advocating if I remember correctly) and then do careful
>> cherry picks from the Python 2 codebase.
>
> six.py is now included in the python3 branch.  At this point not everything
> works (still a long way from it) but I see no showstopping issues that have
> cropped up yet.  (By showstopping I mean something that would prevent
> shipping a single codebase that works in 2.7 and 3.x.)

With new workflow can you rebase Python 3 changes on top of current
HEAD so that it becomes a single lineage of commits and make them
drafts? This way everybody can see what it takes to go Python 3 step by
step. (Too bad there are no hostings that support Evolve extension yet).

Have also tried https://github.com/python-modernize/python-modernize ?