Re: [Pyscard-devel] Modernisation progress and first steps to CI

[Ludovic R. <lud...@gm...>]

2015-06-20 2:07 GMT+02:00 Alex Willmer <al...@mo...>:
> Ludovic,

Hello,

> Thank you for merging my changes. I see also that you've started a
> Python 3 branch. The C code is outside my expertise, but you should be
> aware of one behaviour change that [1abd4d] introduced
>
> -            print reader.name, ', uri: ', reader.uri
> +            print(reader.name, ', uri: ', reader.uri)
>
> In 2.x this will print the repr() of a tuple, not the string you intended. e.g.
> [GCC 4.9.2] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> print 'a', 'b', 'c'
> a b c
>>>> print('a', 'b', 'c')
> ('a', 'b', 'c')
>
> The fix is
>>>> from __future__ import print_function
>>>> print('a', 'b', 'c')
> a b c

I know.
I don't know if the pyscard should move to Python3 only or continue to
support Python2 as well.
It is easy to support both Python 2 and Python 3?

> One final thing, I'm experimenting with hosted builds and continuous
> integration on Windows. It looks like we can get 32 and 64 bit Windows
> binaries/installers for pyscard with very little trouble.
>
> Repo: https://github.com/moreati/pyscard *
> 1st build: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/moreati/pyscard/build/1.0.4/job/7jeh37mcn85ey8tr

Great.
I did not know ci.appveyor.com, only https://travis-ci.org/

It looks like appveyor is for Windows only and travis is for Linux and Mac only.

> * Github was just convenient, I've no intention of forking pyscard and
> I will be sending patches to you.

You should have cloned my github repository
https://github.com/LudovicRousseau/pyscard. It would be easier to make
pull requests.

Bye

-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau