2009/5/7 Shaun Laughey <shaun.laug...@googlemail.com>: > Hi Andy didn't you start a while ago?
We've dabbled and done a private port of the open source toolkit using 2-to-3, which sort of works except that PIL is not yet available for 3.0 and that's a major issue for many users. We also build a ton of solutions on Django. So we're kind of waiting for those two to get ported. Also we can't sanely do what Guido wants and release/maintain a library with the same APIs across 2.3,24,2.5,2.6,2.7,3.0,3.1 etc. I just don't see any "ROI". I'm much more interested in doing a backwards-incompatible "reportlab3" where we clear out our own decade of clutter and make proper use of the distinction between text and bytes; we have a clear design in our heads for this. But Guido didn't want people doing that a year ago. > Your codebase would become smaller and easier to maintain. The 3.x codebase, yes. But the total codebase would only shrink if all the users of all the solutions we have built on 2.x dropped dead, and we'll get the usual stream of new requirements for the old libraries indefinitely.... but that's the price of having a software business rather than a free-time project. - Andy _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
