Re: GNOME goal for 3.8: Python 3 -- impact for pygobject itself

[Martin Pitt <martin pitt ubuntu com>]

Olav Vitters [2012-11-05 10:56 +0100]:
> The default should be changed. If jhbuild could still something like a
> fake pygobject-python2 which still builds the py2 supports then it
> should be quite an easy change.

Colin seems to agree to this as well. I now added a --with-python
option to pygobject and default to "python3" if nothing is specified,
and "python3" actually exists.

I created a bug about the necessary changes to jhbuild:

  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687743

I attached a patch to it which explicitly configures pygobject with
--with-python=python3, and add a new pygobject-python2 project to it.
I'd appreciate feedback on that patch; once we settle to a shape/form,
I'm happy to create a patch to switch all the existing dependencies to
pygobject-python2, and then module maintainers can change it back to
pygobject once they verified/fixed their code to work with py3.

Thanks!

Martin
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