Re: pygnulib: Portability fixes

[Mathieu Lirzin]

Dmitry Selyutin <address@hidden> writes:

> Wow, that's a surprise. Sure, we must support all Python 3 versions. Thank 
> you, I've applied it. Please check if everything is OK, I'm not a Git guru: 
> since parser and config were a bit ahead, I did the same as you did, 
> committed, then exported a patch via $(git format-patch HEAD~1), then put the 
> original author and text (only lowercasing a one letter). Please let me know 
> if you know a better way, I don't use Git intensively.

The usual process depends on your email client.  Basically you have to
save the attached patch to a file in Gnulib Git repository.  Then from
that directory the command 'git am 0001-blablaba.patch' will apply that
patch.

If your are comfortable with Emacs I recommend using Magit which is a
nice UI that can help becoming a "Git guru".

>> I suppose that in the context of Gnulib it is important to be compatible 
> with Python 2?
> It is not. :-) Even in 2012 when I started the original work, Bruno wanted to 
> stick to Python 3, but I still did everything in a crazy mix of both 
> versions. 
> Now the support for Python 2 seems to be redundant; hopefully most Unices 
> either have Python 3 by default or at least have it in repositories, ports, 
> etc. The cost of maintaining the script for both versions is really huge, I 
> really think that Bruno was right from the very beginning.

That's fine with me.  :-)

Thanks.

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