Re: Will Subversion upgrade from Python 2.x to 3.7.3?

On 02.07.2019 17:47, Smith, Madison (CGI Federal) wrote:
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> Good morning SVN Devs!
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> I've been looking at the roadmap and was wondering why there isn't any
> push to move to Python 3?
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> Python 2 support ends at the end of the year...in 3 months! Many big
> businesses, contractors, etc that use this product for years will no
> longer be able to as they have policies in place about not using
> unsupported software/libraries.
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> Could we expect a switch to Python 3 and if so is there an ETA?
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All our development tools -- build generator, tests etc. -- already work
with Python 3.

It you're interested in the Python bindings, then please take a look at
this branch:

https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/branches/swig-py3/

It's mostly complete but still needs some work before we can merge it to
trunk. Any help would be most welcome.

-- Brane
Received on 2019-07-03 05:44:05 CEST