On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Andre Fischer <awf....@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30.11.2012 12:02, FR web forum wrote: >>> >>> In trunk we currently have version 2.7.3. Would that be OK? >> >> Python 2.7.3 is in end of life. >> >> It will be better to directly include Python 3.3. >> Compatibility for extensions will be more easy with future LibO 4 that use >> already this version. > > > I thought that 2.x is incompatible from 3.x. Would existing extensions still > work with 3.3? >
Moving to 3.x would be an incompatible change. But 2.7.x is on "extended maintenance" but no new features are being done there. So the future is certainly with 3.x. But we would need to communicate very carefully with extension authors if we want to make this move. We want to avoid this: 1) AOO 4.0 comes out with broken extensions and unhappy users 2) Extension authors have insufficient time to test with Python 3.x support, leading to 1 3) Extension authors are not aware that we are switching to Python 3.x, leading to 1 So if we want to do this we would need to notify extension authors ASAP and give them a way to test their extensions with Python 3.x. So maybe integrate the new Python early and have a developer preview version that they can test with? -Rob > -Andre >
