[virt-tools-list] virt-manager running on python3

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Dec 7 20:24:05 UTC 2017


On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 09:00:30AM -0700, Charles Arnold wrote:
> There has been some recent work done for python3 support in virt-manager.
> Are there plans to move virt-manager entirely to python3?
> There is more work that could be done for this conversion if we want to completely
> move virt-manager to run on python3 and I would be happy to contribute to that
> effort if there is interest. 
> In making these changes do we need to keep python2 compatibility?

Python3 is clearly the future, but I think its probably wise to keep dual
py2/3 support for a little while longer, if only to make backports to
current enterprise distros easier.  Definitely contribute patches to port
more stuff to dual py2/3 code if you have the time.

Regards,
Daniel
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