Excellent idea!!! Hector On 21 May 2014 21:35, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey all, > > I would like to add progress to the bug "FS#34397 - [gvim] has > --disable-python3interp" [0]. > > I feel like it's about time to start looking into supporting python 3 in > gvim. After some research, it looks like it would be problematic to support > both python versions compiled into the same vim version. That said, python2 > seems to still be the primary target of most vim plugins. Though a lot of > these plugins also support python 3 at the same time. > > Currently there is no obvious "right" answer to which python version we > should support since python2 obviously has the most support, but on the > other hand, we should support the latest version of python since that is > where the future lies. > > This proposal is to keep the existing vim/gvim packages in [extra], but add > a 3rd split version called gvim-python3 or just gvim-python which would > provide the exact same features as gvim except with python 3 support > instead of python 2. > > This would allow the community to start experimenting with python 3 support > and start reporting any issues to upstream vim plugins. While allowing > users that don't really want to live on the edge to still use gvim as they > previously had been using it. > > Eventually I would like to replace gvim with the python 3 version and > provide a gvim-python2 version so that the default becomes python 3 but we > would still provide a python 2 version for people that still need it. After > some more time, I would like to eventually drop gvim-python2 to the aur and > only support the python 3 version. I still don't know when these switches > will happen, but for now, I would like to take the first step. > > It also seems that there is a python 3 version of gvim available in the aur > [1]. Hopefully this would allow more people to experiment with python 3 > support by removing the need to compile it and have it in supported repos. > > What do yall think? > > [0] - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/34397 > [1] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gvim-python/ > -- Hector Martínez-Seara Monné mail: hseara@xxxxxxxxx Tel: +34656271145 Tel: +358442709253
