This is the first in a series of posts that will describe how I am converting my Leo app to run on Python 3k. I will be writing these posts before the project is complete so that the details are fresh in my mind. But the intention is to say something that will be generally useful to anyone contemplating a similar project: I'll keep Leo-specific details to a minimum. My emphasis will be on strategy and tactics, not code-level details.
The one and only goal of this project is straightforward: the final product will be code that compiles and runs on both Python2k and Python3k without any modification whatsoever. A common code base is an absolute requirement, for two reasons:
1. Leo is under active development using bzr. It would be intolerable to attempt to support multiple code bases for any length of time.
2. Python's 2to3 code-conversion tool does not begin to have the sophistication needed to automatically convert Leo's code. But even if 2to3 did have the smarts, it would odious to add an intermediate code-conversion step every time anyone changed Leo's code base.
This goal is just a bit ambitious, but I have absolute confidence that it can be accomplished. I'll tell you why in the next post.
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