Re: Tracking Python 3 for Firefox tooling

2017-08-16 Thread Gregory Szorc
On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Dustin Mitchell wrote: > This feels like a project that could benefit from a number of people > coordinating a slow hacking-away at it, with the leaf nodes of that > dependency tree being good bite-sized projects suitable for hacking on in > spare cycles or for c

Re: Tracking Python 3 for Firefox tooling

2017-08-16 Thread Alex Gaynor
A great fire milestone is likely getting python3 -mcompileall python/ clean. It looks like there's a couple dozen syntax errors that I bet could be knocked out in an hour. Alex On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Dustin Mitchell wrote: > This feels like a project that could benefit from a number o

Re: Tracking Python 3 for Firefox tooling

2017-08-16 Thread Dustin Mitchell
This feels like a project that could benefit from a number of people coordinating a slow hacking-away at it, with the leaf nodes of that dependency tree being good bite-sized projects suitable for hacking on in spare cycles or for casual contributors. In my experience with other projects, one of t

Tracking Python 3 for Firefox tooling

2017-08-16 Thread Gregory Szorc
In the past few weeks, a few independent projects have inquired about using Python 3 for Firefox build/development tooling. tl;dr we now have bug 1388447 (aliased as "buildpython3") tracking everything Python 3 related to Firefox development. Please use it. My thoughts on Python 3 and Firefox fol