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Re: [H-client-devel] Questions about the python3-port branch in the git
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Yuchen Pei |
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Re: [H-client-devel] Questions about the python3-port branch in the git repo |
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Sun, 19 Jun 2022 23:29:28 +1000 |
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On Thu 2022-06-16 14:19:01 -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
> Hello Yuchen,
>
> Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me> writes:
>
>> I had a cursory look at the python3-port branch[0], which is a port to
>> python3/gtk3 according to [1], and I have some quick questions:
>>
>> 1. The tree looks a bit weird: it contains an h-client subdir[2] which looks
>> identical to the tree[0] itself sans the h-client subdir, why?
>
> Yes; I noticed that too. At some point in the history it gets removed;
> I think it had to be that way to be able to merge both SVN histories as
> one.
>
>> 2. The README.txt[3] still says python 3 is not supported. Perhaps it
>> needs updating?
>
> Right. We'll want to cut a proper release I think and take care of
> these things. The python3-port branch is already used in Guix; I had
> made sure it works at least as well as the old Python 2 code base.
>
> I suggest we wait a bit to see what Bill thinks about their progress on
> (much welcome!) UI improvements. If they are satisfied and development
> reaches some milestone soon, we could test it, merge it to master
> (deleting the now obsolete python3-port branch) and release from master.
Do you mean merging the UI improvements into master as well?
>
> How does that sound?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Maxim
Best,
Yuchen
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