On 11/11/2009 01:13 AM, David Malcolm wrote:

I'm working on a python 3 stack for Fedora 13, parallel-installable with the default python 2 stack [1]

I've attempted to package python 3, and package some python modules for python 3. So far, I've got a "python3-rpm", a "python3-lxml", and two different ways of packaging "python3-setuptools", though none of these are actually in our CVS yet [2].

Thanks everyone for your help so far.

In doing so, I've been writing some proposals on packaging guidelines for Python 3 - both for secondary python runtimes, and for modules for them.

You can see what I've written so far here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Python3

Obviously this is a work in progress but hopefully makes sense as far as it goes.

I've also written a script to cover some of the automatable work that can given python-foo.spec will write a python3-foo.spec

You can see the script here: http://dmalcolm.fedorapeople.org/python3-packaging/rpm2to3.py

I got over-ambitious with this script: it can also be given a target srpm, and will then checkout the python 2 srpm, convert to python 3, then recursively walk the build requirements, building the python 3 packages in mock, attemping to build all a stack all the way up to the given srpm... well, that was the theory. However, most packages seem to need at least a little manual cleanup, and so I never managed to get far up the stack - and this is no substitute for actually engaging with the various upstream projects and working on python 3 support in the manner that each upstream wants (e.g. do they want a unified trunk for 2 and 3 vs separate branches)

Thoughts? Dave

Look very nice, looking forward to test it, when the needed stuff hits the F13 repos.

Thanks for the good work.

Tim