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On 27/11/14 19:10, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 11/28/2014 12:06 AM, Ihar Hrachyshka wrote:
>> On 27/11/14 12:09, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>>> On 11/27/2014 12:31 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Nov 26, 2014, at 10:34 AM, Thomas Goirand
>>>>> <zigo at debian.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I tried to package suds-jurko. I was first happy to see
>>>>> that there was some progress to make things work with
>>>>> Python 3. Unfortunately, the reality is that suds-jurko has
>>>>> many issues with Python 3. For example, it has many:
>>>>> 
>>>>> except Exception, e:
>>>>> 
>>>>> as well as many:
>>>>> 
>>>>> raise Exception, 'Duplicate key %s found' % k
>>>>> 
>>>>> This is clearly not Python3 code. I tried quickly to fix
>>>>> some of these issues, but as I fixed a few, others appear.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So I wonder, what is the point of using suds-jurko, which
>>>>> is half-baked, and which will conflict with the suds
>>>>> package?
>>>>> 
>>>> It looks like it uses 2to3 to become Python 3 compatible.
>> 
>>> Outch! That's horrible.
>> 
>>> I think it'd be best if someone spent some time on writing
>>> real code rather than using such a hack as 2to3. Thoughts
>>> anyone?
>> 
>> That sounds very subjective. If upstream is able to support
>> multiple python versions from the same codebase, then I see no
>> reason for them to split the code into multiple branches and
>> introduce additional burden syncing fixes between those.
>> 
>> /Ihar
> 
> Objectively, using 2to3 sux, and it's much better to fix the code, 
> rather than using such a band-aid. It is possible to support
> multiple version of Python with a single code base. So many
> projects are able to do it, I don't see why suds would be any
> different.

Their support matrix starts from Python 2.4. Maybe that's a reason for
band-aid and not using runtime cross-version wrappers.
/Ihar
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