Re: [Gramps-devel] Python 2.6 support Was: Problem on startup

[Eero T. <ee...@us...>]

Hi,

On Tuesday 04 November 2008, Algis Kabaila wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 19:46:50 Benny Malengier wrote:
> > Ok, I will not have python 2.6 on my system in the near future.
> > Martin, can you open a bug ticket to follow this?
> > I started a wiki page:
> > http://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Python2.6
>
> Just a 2 c contribution: Python 3.0 is in a pre-release stage.  It is
> significantly different from 2.x.  See for instance
>
>        http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/nde/papers/teachpy3.html
>
> Would it be worth while to jump straight to Python 3.0 if there are
> already issues of differences between versions?

Most people wouldn't then be able to use Gramps.  I don't think it's worth
considering this trouble until final Python v3 has been released + there
have been some additional bugfix releases.

In the meanwhile 2.6 is meant to be the transition version that
can be used to test Python program compatibility with v3.


	- Eero