[arch-general] [Proposal] add python 3 support for gvim in [extra]

[Richter Vania]

21.05.2014, 22:35, "Thomas Dziedzic" <gostrc at gmail.com>:
> 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/

Seems like a very good idea. Python 3 is the default Python in Arch anyway, no reason to make an exception for Vim.