RFC: switching to python 3

[Ralf Habacker]

Am 04.01.2012 00:01, schrieb Patrick Spendrin:
> Hi everybody,
>
> we are currently thinking about switching emerge to python 3.X. This is
> needed as the currently used version is not maintained anymore, there
> will be no more 2.7.X release.
>
> Our current plan is to get the python3 branch of emerge so far that we
> can build KDE completely and then make the kde-4.8 branch the first one
> to use python 3. From the users perspective, there won't be a lot of
> changes, most package recipes will stay the same, only internal code
> must be changed.
>
> If you have some more ideas or comment please comment below, otherwise
> we will try to switch in the coming few weeks before 4.8.0.
The question is which internal code is required to change - in case it 
covers code which may need to be refactored because of other reasons, it 
may make sense to merge those part.
There is for example the attempt to refactor the help page and command 
line processing (args.py) which has been paused because of design issues 
of the current implementation.

Regards
Ralf