python-daemon support for python 3

[Aaron Maxwell]

Hi Pavel, (and hey Ben),

In addition to the contributions Ben mentions, I made a fork of 1.5.5 that was 
ported to 3.2, taking a "don't look back" approach.  I.e., this doesn't 
support Python 2 at all.  You can grab it (and its ported dependency, 
lockfile) here:

https://github.com/redsymbol/python-daemon-1.5.5-py3k
https://github.com/redsymbol/lockfile-0.9.1-py3k

I haven't had any problems with this in production code for over 6 months now, 
so I'm calling it stable :)

That said, I'm wondering Ben if you can clarify how people can contribute now 
for Python 3 support. What kind of pull requests would you like to receive, 
exactly?

While what I did was perhaps valuable as a reference point, demonstrating that 
it can work on python 3, have you found it easy to integrate in the code base?  
Maybe a better approach would be to make changes to your master source that 
would allow a simple invokation of 2to3 to produce the complete, fully-
functional Python3 version. That would allow you to have one code base that 
easily supports Python 2 and 3.  (If that runs into difficulty, the "six" 
compatibility module might be helpful.)

Thanks,
Aaron




On Sunday 27 January 2013 21:56:46 Ben Finney wrote:
> Howdy Pavel, thank you for your interest in ‘python-daemon’.
> 
> On 25-Jan-2013, Pavel Perestoronin wrote:
> > Do you plan to add the Python 3 support? Do you accept patches for it? Or
> > is there a repository that I can fork and add the Python 3 support
> > myself?
> 
> Yes to all of these :-)
> 
> The development of ‘python-daemon’ is discussed on the forum at
> <URL:http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/python-daemon-devel>
> and we have had some activity in 2012 around getting the library in shape
> for Python 3.
> 
> A Lot of the work has been done by Aaron Maxwell, for example see
> <URL:http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/python-daemon-devel/2012-Marc
> h/000003.html>
> <URL:http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/python-daemon-devel/2012-Jun
> e/000016.html>. I would be very pleased to help you both collaborate if you
> could discuss it on the forum.

-- 
Aaron Maxwell
http://redsymbol.net