[egenix-users] mxBase and Python 3

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 11.03.2018 12:52, Christian Marquardt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we are using the egenix mxBase quite a lot in a larger remote sensing
> software package, especially mxDateTime.  With the lifetime of Python 2
> coming closer to an end, I wondered what the status of porting the
> software to Python 3 is. I found some emails in this list from ~2015
> saying that it a port planned, but difficult and probably a large effort
> - and not much else afterwards. Is this port still in the pipeline?

I did run a sprint on to get started on this last year, but
we didn't get very far and the sprint showed how much work
even porting just one of the extensions is.
 Since we're still using mostly Python 2 in production and client
projects (clients still mostly have large Python 2 code bases),
the port to Python 3 is rather low priority. Without
funding in some form to cover the development costs, it's likely
going to stay like that for some time.

As much as I'd love to work on a port, I don't have the
resources to work on it.

Thanks,
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