Make Trac work with Python 3

[Remy Blank]

With Genshi having been ported to Python 3, we could start thinking about how we can achieve the same with Trac. As a first step, we should check if our dependencies have a Python 3 port:

Database backends	SQLite	builtin sqlite3, PySqlite?
	PostgreSQL
	MySQL
Version control bindings	Subversion	unlikely (1)
	Mercurial	unlikely (2)
Web frontends	Apache	​mod_wsgi
Others	setuptools
	Genshi	​trunk
	Babel	#bl209
	pytz
	docutils

Notes

• svn: not much activity on the bindings; rather go the svn.exe way
• hg: after 2 SoC projects already, the efforts seem to have stalled

Once we have at least one backend, VC binding and frontend ready, the next step would be playing with 2to3 and see what comes out.

Let's set the milestone tentatively to 0.14.

[Eli Carter]

There is also a 3to2 tool, and rumors here at PyCon that 3to2 will (soonish?) have the ability to take Python 3 code and output versions that will work for 2.7, 2.6, 2.5, and maybe even 2.4.

[Christian Boos]

Replying to ecarter:

There is also a 3to2 tool, and rumors here at PyCon that 3to2 will (soonish?) have the ability to take Python 3 code and output versions that will work for 2.7, 2.6, 2.5, and maybe even 2.4.

For projects that need to be migrating away from Python 3? ;-)

[Christian Boos]

Create a table for the packages and document some already py3k compatible packages or in-progress status.