Bug#729924: vim: Add Python 3 support

James McCoy jamessan at debian.org
Tue Feb 4 00:38:58 UTC 2014


On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 07:31:40PM -0500, James McCoy wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 05:38:12PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> > I think we have other such precedence in Debian; I remember hacking on some
> > package to dynamically load either Python 2 or Python 3 (but not both) support
> > at runtime, but now I can't remember which package that is.  I personally
> > don't think you'd need to support *both* Python 2 and Python 3 in the same
> > process space, and I'm actually pretty skeptical that that would work!
> 
> I was part of some discussion[0] on the vim-dev list when this was being
> fleshed out that shows it does work.  The problem is that Debian's
> python builds don't link the C extensions against the relevant libpython.

[0]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.vim.devel/27270

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
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