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[Python-Dev] [GSoC] Porting on RPM3

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Mar 21 12:19:37 CET 2011 
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 7:50 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Am 21.03.2011 07:37, schrieb Prashant Kumar:
>> Hello,
>>     My name is  Prashant Kumar and I've worked on porting few python
>> libraries(distutils2, configobj) and I've been looking at the ideas
>> list for GSoC for a project related to porting.
>>
>>     I came across [1]  and found it interesting. It mentions that some
>> of the work has already been done; I would like to look at the code
>> repository for the same, could someone provide me the link for the
>> same?
>
> Not so much the code but the person who did the porting. This was Dave
> Malcolm (CC'ed); please get in touch with him. Please familiarize
> yourself with the existing Python bindings (in the latest RPM 4 release
> from rpm.org). You'll notice that this already has Python 3 support;
> not sure whether that's the most recent code, though.

Also, if you're interested in any other work on porting (possibly even
in the context of GSoC if you can find a mentor), I believe the
majority of folks working on that kind of thing are now coordinating
their efforts on the python-porting [1] mailing list.

Cheers,
Nick.

[1] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-porting

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