[reportlab-users] Python 3000

[Albertas Agejevas]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 06:01:36PM +0000, Andy Robinson wrote:

> Guido wants people to release "compatible" packages.  The same code

> base cannot serve Python 2.3-2.6 and Python 3.0 and we also don't have

> the time for two major, diverging branches.     So the real question

> is whether we do a "modest" ReportLab 3.0 with the minimum necessary

> changes; or (my preference) concentrate on creating the best library

> we can on Python 3000 without the constraints of compatibility with

> everything written before.  It is a rare chance for a break with the

> past.


Yay, this indeed sounds like a great opportunity to get rid of the
cruft accumulated during the years.  On the other hand, having one,
compatible, trunk is of a great value as well.  Perhaps the pre-2.6
versions can be automatically generated out of the 2.6 mainline with a
script similar to 2to3 stripping the b prefixes from byte strings.

Albertas