[UG] Porting urlgrabber to Python 3

[Tomas Radej]

On 06/25/2014 11:06 PM, James Antill wrote:
>> Of course, I understand that the yum community is not the target
>> audience of such a change. The packages in question which require
>> urlgrabber are e. g. anaconda, pykickstart or virt-manager.
>>
>> My intention is that *I* would perform the change
>
>   Sure, sounds fine.

Great, I will start doing it right away then.

>>   This is the reason why I asked which versions
>> are intended to be still supported should the change happen, because
>> having the code run on e. g. both Python 2.4 and 3.4 is a bit tricky, to
>> say the least.
>
>   It's probably easier to work and just have a py3 version, leaving the
> py2 version at whatever is there now.

We'd rather keep one codebase, as it saves much work when fixing bugs or 
doing other changes.

> But if you want to merge both
> languages for some reason, then it only needs to work on the latest
> Fedora py2.x ... as there's no reason to ever backport it.

Awesome.

>>   >   It'd probably be best if the main package that is going to be using
>>   > urlgrabber in F22+ owned it.
>>
>> If by 'owning' you mean bundling, that's rather not possible, because a
>> multitude of packages depend on it, as stated above.
>
>   No, literally just whoever wants to be responsible getting
> co-maintainer status in Fedora and maybe upstream.

We'll gladly take the co-maintainer status in Fedora, no problem.

Tomas