[Twisted-Python] ANN: Foolscap-0.6.4 released

2012-06-19 Thread Brian Warner
Just a brief note, I released Foolscap-0.6.4 tonight. This contains a handful of small bugfixes and cleanups, gathered over the last 5 months. The most significant change was that the "git-foolscap" tools were cleaned up. These live in doc/examples/ , and let you configure remote access to your G

[Twisted-Python] Python 3 support in Twisted: Request for relaxation of coverage requirements

2012-06-19 Thread Vladimir Perić
Hello everyone, as some of you may be aware, I was accepted as a Google Summer of Code student, with the project of porting Twisted to Python 3 (or getting as close as possible)[1]. Now, there are basically two strategies: maintaining py2 code and using 2to3 when installing under py3, or maintaini

Re: [Twisted-Python] Python 3 support in Twisted: Request for relaxation of coverage requirements

2012-06-19 Thread Itamar Turner-Trauring
On 06/19/2012 10:43 AM, Vladimir Perić wrote: > 3) apply > > To quote Lennart Regebro, "The Python 2 builtin apply() has been > removed in Python 3. It’s used to call a function, but since you can > call the function directly it serves no purpose and has been > deprecated since Python 2.3." I've re

Re: [Twisted-Python] Python 3 support in Twisted: Request for relaxation of coverage requirements

2012-06-19 Thread Glyph
On Jun 19, 2012, at 7:43 AM, Vladimir Perić wrote: > there are basically two strategies: > maintaining py2 code and using 2to3 when installing under py3, or > maintaining a codebase which is compatible with both 2 and 3 Based on the experiences of other porters I have talked to, and heard speaki

Re: [Twisted-Python] Python 3 support in Twisted: Request for relaxation of coverage requirements

2012-06-19 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:55:51 -0700 Glyph wrote: > > On Jun 19, 2012, at 7:43 AM, Vladimir Perić wrote: > > > there are basically two strategies: > > maintaining py2 code and using 2to3 when installing under py3, or > > maintaining a codebase which is compatible with both 2 and 3 > > Based on th

Re: [Twisted-Python] Python 3 support in Twisted: Request for relaxation of coverage requirements

2012-06-19 Thread Thijs Triemstra
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/19/2012 07:15 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:55:51 -0700 Glyph > wrote: >> >> On Jun 19, 2012, at 7:43 AM, Vladimir Perić wrote: >> >>> there are basically two strategies: maintaining py2 code and >>> using 2to3 when instal

Re: [Twisted-Python] Python 3 support in Twisted: Request for relaxation of coverage requirements

2012-06-19 Thread Itamar Turner-Trauring
> That said, there are > syntax changes ('except...as...' being the big one) that make supporting > 2.5->3 difficult, and only becomes reasonable at 2.6->3. So it may be > necessary to get 2to3 involved for some fixers. We've dropped support for 2.6 post-12.1. So that's not a problem. We can do

Re: [Twisted-Python] Python 3 support in Twisted: Request for relaxation of coverage requirements

2012-06-19 Thread Glyph
Le Jun 19, 2012 à 10:50 AM, Itamar Turner-Trauring a écrit : > We've dropped support for 2.6 post-12.1. So that's not a problem. We can > do these changes now in trunk. I really hope you mean 2.5.___ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedm

Re: [Twisted-Python] Python 3 support in Twisted: Request for relaxation of coverage requirements

2012-06-19 Thread Itamar Turner-Trauring
> Le Jun 19, 2012 à 10:50 AM, Itamar Turner-Trauring a > écrit : > >> We've dropped support for 2.6 post-12.1. So that's not a problem. We can >> do these changes now in trunk. > > I really hope you mean 2.5. Sigh. Yes. Next release will be 2.6 and later. ___

Re: [Twisted-Python] Python 3 support in Twisted: Request for relaxation of coverage requirements

2012-06-19 Thread gelin yan
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:28 AM, Itamar Turner-Trauring wrote: > > Le Jun 19, 2012 à 10:50 AM, Itamar Turner-Trauring > a > > écrit : > > > >> We've dropped support for 2.6 post-12.1. So that's not a problem. We can > >> do these changes now in trunk. > > > > I really hope you mean 2.5. > > Sigh

Re: [Twisted-Python] Python 3 support in Twisted: Request for relaxation of coverage requirements

2012-06-19 Thread Itamar Turner-Trauring
On 06/19/2012 03:01 PM, gelin yan wrote: > > Sigh too, I am still using 2.6.6 & twisted 11.0; however I think it > is not so difficult to migrate to 2.7. > Just to be clear, Python 2.6 is still supported as of 12.1 and will continue to be supported (at the minimum for the next release and proba