Re: python 3 compatibility in setup phase

[Thomas Klausner <tk giga or at>]

Hi Kai!

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 06:57:26AM +1000, Kai Willadsen wrote:
> On 24 February 2014 23:32, Thomas Klausner <tk giga or at> wrote:
> > The attached patch fixes this. If you want to be on the safe side, you
> > can add a "from __future__ import print_function" to build_helpers.py.
>
> Cheers. This has been added to several files already, but it's
> obviously a one-by-one process.
>
> I've also updated the README and the launcher to say that we don't
> support Python 3 yet.

Thank you! The homepage doesn't say it explicitly yet, in case you
want to mention it there as well.

> > Does meld-3.11.0 officially support python-3.x?
>
> 3.11.0 definitely does *not* support Python 3. Most of the code base
> is actually python 3 compatible, but areas such as interaction with
> GTK need significant changes for unicode handling differences. This
> shouldn't be a lot of work, but 3.11.0 had already taken way too long
> and I didn't want to hold it up.
>
> It's quite likely that Meld will *require* Python 3.3 before 3.12
> comes around. Supporting both Python 2 and 3 seems relatively
> pointless for user applications, and Python 3 is widely available.

Sure, that's fine with me.

Thanks for the program!
 Thomas