Excerpts from Neil Muller's message of 2016-06-24 00:26:25 +0200: > I'm working on packaging the latest version of sqlobject, which adds > supprt for python 3, and I'm unsure of how best to handle the helper > applications that ship as part of the package. The helper applications > will work with both python2 and python3, so it's not clear to me how > to apply the advice given in [1], and I'd ideally want the helper > programs available regardless of which version of the module is > installed. > > Looking at some other packages in the archive, there seem to be > several approaches used to solve similar problems > > a) Bundle the application in both python2 and python3 version and use > alternatives to manage the version (docutils and sphinx, for example, > although in those cases the programs are used fairly extensively as > applications)
This seems like the most reasonable method, and the one I'd expect as a user.
