Troy Curtis Jr wrote on Mon, 16 Oct 2017 01:00 +0000:
> Howdy guys,
>
Welcome back!
> It has been quite some time since I was last on here, but as I was looking
Almost a decade, according to contribulyzer. :-)
> through Fedora's Python 3 porting status list [1] I saw the familiar
> Subversion project showed as not yet supporting Python 3. So I was
> wondering if you are interested in having me take a shot at getting it
> working. For a really small effort, I would have just implemented it and
> then see if you would take the patch. However, after spending a bit of
> time on it this afternoon, I realized it will take a bit more time to get
> right. So I wanted to make sure the dev team was interesting in taking in
> such a patch before I bothered to finish it out.
>
Thanks for asking. In general, we'd like to support Python 3. In 1.9
we dropped Python 2.6 support in order to make it easier to add Python
3.x support.
> I've looked around a bit, and other than a note about getting the top-level
> tests running under Python 3, I haven't seen much mention about
> implementing this. I did notice there is a separate pysvn project, which
> lists Python 3 support, so I specifically wanted to make sure that the
> built-in python bindings are anticipated to be a supported feature going
> forward.
There hasn't been any suggestion to deprecate swig-py. Moreover, they
are our favourite bindings for tools/ scripts, so I don't anticipate
them to be deprecated, either.
That said, the bindings see few changes nowadays, and we have always had
few swig-savvy devs around; so any help would be most welcome.
> I also wanted to know of any partial efforts that might have
> already been started, or if there were discussions related to the
> implementation that my searches did not turn up.
There are several separate uses of Python in the source tree. I recall
patches to build/, tools/, and subversion/tests/cmdline/ that improve
3.x compatibility, but I don't recall any such changes to the bindings.
Note that we have both SWIG bindings at subversion/bindings/swig/python/
and ctypes bindings at subversion/bindings/ctypes-python/.
I take it that of all these, you're interested in the swig-py bindings?
Or are the build system and test suite also within your scope?
You said the patch was going to be a largeish one. How large/invasive
are we talking about? (This affects how easy it'd be for us to
review/apply it)
Cheers,
Daniel
Received on 2017-10-16 22:37:06 CEST