Re: Python 3.x progress

Andy Robinson:

> Many of the failing tests now relate to old demos or documentation
> tools I would prefer to simply get rid of.  After some debate
> internally about "using docutils" versus "eating our own dogfood", we
> want to keep the User Guide, which makes itself in PDF with no
> external dependencies, as it is our best test and a compelling demo.
> 
> I am suggesting that we leave some things out of the next version...
> 
> 1. Drop the auto-generated library reference (which walks through
> docstrings in a very weird manner).  Replace it with Sphinx
> documentation.
> 2. Drop the auto-generated graphics reference and replace with some
> Sphinx extension to the above.  It's just easier to browse this stuff
> on the web
> 3. Drop Pythonpoint, then possibly rebuild it later using new parser technology.

Assuming you don't want to provide a seperate package for Python 2 anymore, you might want to consider to package additional tools like Pythonpoint as, well... additional tools. I remember in ancient times there was the idea to provide an extension mechanism for reportlab, much like Sphinx does today, but apparently that never materialized.

Otherwise: thumbs up for Python 3! BTW, will this also be Reportlab 3?

Regards,

Dinu