Re: [UDD] Is there some effort to port UDD to Python3?

[Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>]

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 05:09:02PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 13/05/20 at 16:38 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Hi Lucas,
> > 
> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 08:47:11AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Not as far as I know. I suspect that, once it becomes necessary, it will
> > > > be easy to do given the codebase is relatively small.
> > > 
> > > I agree that the small code base makes it probably easy.  But I'm
> > > worried about the "once it becomes necessary" part.  We all know that
> > > Python2 is only alive due to our security team and we should actively
> > > work on getting rid of the dependency rather sooner than later.  Working
> > > "under pressure" makes things always uneasy - no matter how easy it
> > > would be in principle.
> > > 
> > > I know probably nobody will stop me from doing it - but I'm hesitating
> > > adding another item on my table which is full of Debian Med - Covid-19
> > > stuff.  I'd volunteer to port those importers I've written myself once
> > > somebody gives the signal - but I'd love if those who have written the
> > > core parts would take the lead (rather sooner than later).
> > 
> > I need to come back to this topic since I like to test the importers on
> > my local machines which are usually running testing.
> 
> Use the Vagrant development environment?

I admit I've never worked with this.  You said its pretty simple and I
would guess a python3 branch where everybody commits the code he feels
responsible for and test it would be sufficient.  But I'm fine to adapt
(if you point me to some doc).

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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