Sunday 21 September 2014

GSoC 2014 - Porting to Python3 Round Up

Hello Everyone,

This is my round up post for my GSoC 2014 - Porting to Python3 Project.

I know I am almost a month late but it's better late than never i guess.
Just after the GSoC coding period was over my internet broke down and I was completely without internet for almost two weeks and just after that I got busy with my exams. My exams finished yesterday, so here I am today.

When I started the project I expected to complete it even before the deadline, but the more I got into it I realized how wrong I was. The actual changes I made were trivial Python3 syntax changes but finding where the problem was kind of difficult because of the subtle differences between Python2 and 3 due to which building the modules wouldn't completely stop but gave unexpected results. So most of my time this summer went into researching, debugging and handling multiple modules together.

So, in the beginning of the project i researched the changes that needed to be made from Python2 to Python3 then i started with porting sugar-build to Python3 which took quite some time because it was the first module. All the modules that I ported and the changes I made can be found in my previous posts.

I also researched the changes that needed to be made in telepathy-python which is now deprecated and not compatible with Python3.Basically , we would need to replace telepathy-python with gobject-introspection in sugar in order for everything to work correctly in Python3.
By the end I was able to port and build all the modules of sugar except sugar-datastore to Python3. Now all those modules are compatible with Python2 as well as Python3.

Although this is a big step in the right direction , it will still take along time to completely shift all the sugar modules to Python3.

In the end I just wanna thank the Sugarlabs for making me a part of their community and specially my mentors Walter Bender, Gonzalo Odiard and Sameer Verma for helping me with any problems that I faced.

Although I think that I could have learnt a lot more if I had a more personal and bonding interaction with any of my mentors but I still learnt a lot during this summer and I am grateful for that.
I'll also try to stay in touch with the happenings of Sugarlabs and try to contribute whenever possible.

I guess that's it for today , thanks for reading and goodbye!

2 comments:

  1. Good job!
    You are already a part of the SugarLabs community,
    Thanks for all your work

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