Re: [PATCH 0/6] Transition git-p4.py to support Python 3 only

[Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 at 20:10, Joel Holdsworth <jholdsworth@nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> The git-p4.py script currently implements code-paths for both Python 2 and
> 3.
>
> Python 2 was discontinued in 2020, and there is no longer any officially
> supported interpreter. Further development of git-p4.py will require
> would-be developers to test their changes with all supported dialects of
> the language. However, if there is no longer any supported runtime
> environment available, this places an unreasonable burden on the Git
> project to maintain support for an obselete dialect of the language.
>
> This patch-set removes all Python 2-specific code-paths, and then
> applies some simplifications to the code which are available given
> Python 3's improve delineation between bytes and strings.

I might as well take this opportunity to say that I've stopped needing
to worry about git-p4!

Hurrah!

I'm finding that the unit tests no longer pass with this change. I'm
not exactly sure why.


Luke





>
> Joel Holdsworth (6):
>   git-p4: Always pass cmd arguments to subprocess as a python lists
>   git-p4: Don't print shell commands as python lists
>   git-p4: Removed support for Python 2
>   git-p4: Decode byte strings before printing
>   git-p4: Eliminate decode_stream and encode_stream
>   git-p4: Resolve RCS keywords in binary
>
>  git-p4.py | 319 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 123 insertions(+), 196 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.33.0
>