Re: [GMG-Devel] Python 3 support merged! Master unfrozen, but semi-unstable!

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Christopher Allan Webber writes:

> Hello all!
>
> I'm happy to say that Python 3 support has been merged into MediaGoblin
> master!  I'm very excited about all this! :)  This also means that
> master is now unfrozen, and we're free to commit things again.
>
> Unfortunately, there's a downside to this also... there are some edge
> cases that probably are a bit iffy, and there's a good chance that some
> of the docs now need to be updated.  So, if running a site:
>  - If you want stability, please run 0.7.1
>  - If you want to help us test things out, please run git master!
>    Things should be *mostly* stable at this point... tests are passing,
>    but there are surely edge cases.  If you're interested in helping us
>    with them though... ;)
>  - Also, please note that python2.7 should continue to work with
>    MediaGoblin, but python2.6 is probably broken, at least for now.
>    It's not clear if it'll be updated by release.  But keep that in
>    mind.  (Python 3.3 now works though!)

Also, I should have put one more caveat on here, and this one is
*important*: please be careful about switching production sites to
python 3 right now... it's more for development than production.  If
you're already running a site using python 2.X, carry on!  If you're
doing development, please do help us test out python 3!  This should be
resolved by 0.8.0.

The reason is a change to the way the database upgrades work... this
uses Alembic, in addition to sqlalchemy-migrate.  We've set it up to
only do this on python 3... for now.  Once we're sure things are the way
we expect, we'll do it on both.

Thanks all!
 - Chris