Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Python 3 support

[Brian Dolbec]

On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 17:06 -0400, Matthew Ruffalo wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> First, thanks for the great tool. I've been using Gentoo for about 10
> years, and I use Catalyst to build custom Gentoo live CDs that contain
> extra software (e.g. netcat6, rsync, ddrescue, etc.).
>

Yeah, py3 support is on our list of things todo.  We would love to get
help porting. BUT, things are rather slow at getting done at the moment.
I have started a rewrite branch that I am told is what they intend to
change the development branch to.  It has been restructured with
numerous other fixes done to clean up the code.  There are still a ton
more things to do.

There are a few of us waiting for the change to happen before doing a
bunch of work that may need rebasing because of other changes done to
the current master.  I had that happen once where I did a big re-write
(another project) and it took nearly 4 years to get merged.  I had to
rebase numerous times as well as port changes to the new code many
times. :(  I also had to migrate the VCS in the midst of it.

Personally I think it may be better to wait a bit on the py3
compatibility changes.  Many of the potential problem spots will need
fixing anyway, so conversion would likely be smoother after some more
re-write work is done.


I hadn't heard of pycharm, I have been using pyflakes and pylint.
I'll check it out.


you can get my rewite branch so far at
http://dev.gentoo.org/~dolsen/catalyst/

When you clone it, it will compain about not being able to check out
master.  You will need to "git checkout re-write".  But I would just add
my url as another remote to your current clone and fetch it.

I have also made changes for the code to be easily run from the
checkout.  Edit the testpath file then in the terminal you wish to run
catalyst from:

source ./tesptath


> Thanks for your time and any feedback,
> MMR...