Re: Build tools, and Python 3 dependencies (was: How keep Python 3 moving forward)

2014-05-26 Thread Rustom Mody
On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 8:29:13 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 26 May 2014 08:44:51 -0400, Roy Smith wrote: > > > > >> That makes even less sense. The build system runs under whatever > > >> version of Python it needs, and your code runs under whatever version > > >> of Python

Re: Build tools, and Python 3 dependencies (was: How keep Python 3 moving forward)

2014-05-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Oh, I was a bit trigger-happy with my earlier post. On Mon, 26 May 2014 08:44:51 -0400, Roy Smith wrote about his build system and production code: > The are tightly integrated, and share code. [...] > When you start working with large systems, reducing complexity becomes > important. Every t

Re: Build tools, and Python 3 dependencies (was: How keep Python 3 moving forward)

2014-05-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 26 May 2014 08:44:51 -0400, Roy Smith wrote: >> That makes even less sense. The build system runs under whatever >> version of Python it needs, and your code runs under whatever version >> of Python you like. The two don't affect each other at run time, and >> don't affect each other's tes

Re: Build tools, and Python 3 dependencies (was: How keep Python 3 moving forward)

2014-05-26 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Ben Finney wrote: > Roy Smith writes: > > > Stefan Behnel wrote: > > > > > And I don't really see why you would consider fabric a dependency > > > that keeps you from switching to Py3. In many cases, you can just > > > keep running it in Py2 as you did before. > > > > In theory,

Build tools, and Python 3 dependencies (was: How keep Python 3 moving forward)

2014-05-25 Thread Ben Finney
Roy Smith writes: > Stefan Behnel wrote: > > > And I don't really see why you would consider fabric a dependency > > that keeps you from switching to Py3. In many cases, you can just > > keep running it in Py2 as you did before. > > In theory, that's possible. In practice, it would mean having t