FreeBSD Port: devel/py-subversion - Python 3 flavor?

Lev Serebryakov lev at FreeBSD.org
Mon Apr 27 12:49:07 UTC 2020


On 24.04.2020 0:18, Yasuhito FUTATSUKI wrote:

 Problem is, python2 will be removed from ports (relatively) soon, so support python2 bindings in ports will be impossible after 2020-12-31 anyway...

> * Python application using Subversion SWIG Python bindings also need to
>   modify to support Python 3. Especially distinction between bytes and
>   str will be needed. All char * type in C API are mapped to bytes,
>   although it accept str for input.
> * Support for Python 3 for scripts in tools/ subdirectory is very
>   poor status. 
>   (See https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SVN/Subversion%27s+Python+3+Support+Status for detail) 
> 
> I, myself, use tools/hook-scripts/mailer/mailer.py for commit mail,
> it doesn't work with Python 3.  I also use ViewVC (devel/viewvc,
> https://github.com/viewvc/viewvc) but its Python 3 support is
> in progress.
-- 
// Lev Serebryakov

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