Do not panic, please. Keep calm and carry on !

Two things (among many) where help would be welcome, rather than just 
worried comments :

* fix the SAGE_PYTHON3 build

* opinion from a number-theory expert on the doctest failure in #22257

cheers,
Frederic


Le mercredi 8 mars 2017 11:42:29 UTC+1, Frédéric Chapoton a écrit :
>
> Hello,
>
> an update on the python3 status. Moving slowly, long way ahead.
>
> * currently, building sage with "SAGE_PYTHON3=yes" breaks much more early 
> than previously. This prevents to monitor seriously the progress towards 
> python3 and should be investigated as soon as possible.
>
> * step 1A : cythonizing : there remains only a few calls to cmp() that 
> prevents cythonization of our pyx files
>
> -- some of them will maybe be handled by ticket #22549, that changes the 
> semantics of equality for real and complex interval fields.
>
> -- some other may require more work, as started in ticket #22029
>
> * step 1B : compilation of the pyx files : here there are a few problems 
> remainings including at least
>
> -- need to adapt the weak dictionaries (ticket #22305)
>
> -- a problem with InheritComparison metaclass (#22403)
>
> * step 1C:  compilation of all standard packages. Some problematic ones are
>
> -- sagenb (to be phased out soon ?)
>
> -- conway database ?
>
> * step 2A: make sure that python files compiles (not yet possible to try 
> to do that, or just blindly)
>
> -- the calls to cmp() in Python code are still very numerous.
>
> -- it seems that zip has now been fully futurized
>
> -- the same for range is underway
>
> -- some other major issues will be unicode and integer division
>
> * step 2B: doctests pass
>
> -- this is only possible to consider as a task once everything else is 
> solved, so this is not for soon
>
> Frederic
>

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