Re: FYI: Python 3 migration of distributuion
Osamu Aoki <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 02:28:44PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 11:11:43AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > > Osamu Aoki <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Currently, getmail is a candidate for removal from the upcoming Debian > > > release if it is not updated to support python 3 by someone (not > > > necessary by upstream). > > > > Thanks for the update, Osamu. I have actually been playing with a prototype > > refactoring of getmail to not just support but require a recent Python 3.x > > version. Such a project would give me the opportunity to remove a lot of > > historical cruft and backwards-compatibility code that getmail has accumulated > > over 20+ years. > > That's great. (I thought you rejected idea to move to 3.0.) > > I tried to do it around getmail 5.5 days. (I didn't finish it) FYI: I found this repo https://gitlab.com/dkg/getmail/commits/python3 I think this is better work than my local work. Osamu