Re: Running getmail with python3
Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
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Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://marc.info/?l=getmail&m=151542154628352&w=2 > > suggested that converting to python3 was not a priority for Charles. To be slightly more precise, I have nothing against Python 3. I'm just not willing to drop compatibility with everything before Python 2.7 to get there. The minimum version required can't go above Python 2.5 for another few years, I think. > Sadly, the lack of a robust test suite makes it difficult to know > whether any conversion has broken anything :/ If I could go back to 1998, when I wrote the first version of getmail, I would start with tests. Unfortunately that's not possible... the world of software development has changed a lot in 20 years. Also unfortunately, getmail doesn't pay the bills, so investing major effort into it without a sponsor isn't practical. Charles -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon GPL'ed software available at: http://pyropus.ca/software/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------