On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:07 AM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > This issue is not "porting". The issues are: > > 1) the database drivers have to be ported first. web2py and Django > depend more or less on the same drivers > > 2) web2py supports the Google App Engine and that is Python 2.5. If we > move to 3.0 your applications will not run anymore on the GAE. Google > has no plan to move to 3.0. > > 3) A framework is not just based on Python. It requires that you code > in Python. If people "port" Django to Python 3.0. Your Django > applications will no longer work. The same is true for web2py. > > The bottom line is that we could port web2py to 3.0 in one week > (technically it does not take much, except for str vs unicode we are > already compliant) but it would be pointless to lose driver support, > GAE support and break compatibility of all the current apps. > > When GAE moves to 3.0 and the database drivers for all supported > backends become available we will release something like web3py (TM). > Since we are going to break language backward compatibility that will > also be a good time to include other non-backward compatible changes. > 2010-2011 are reasonable dates but just a guess. > > You should not measure progress of a framework from this deadline, but > from the number of commits. > > What feature of 3.0 do you consider so important to constraint you?
Specifically, none. I only would want to know about the future of web2py to know when I'll have to "invest" in porting to Python 3. -- Álvaro Justen Peta5 - Telecomunicações e Software Livre 21 3021-6001 / 9898-0141 http://www.peta5.com.br/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
