Bug 494004 – Consider xlwt-future as a dev-python/xlwt provider

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2013-12-12 07:54:53 UTC]

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlwt-future/0.8.0 is py3 compatible fork of dev-python/xlwt. How about bumping to the fork to get py3 compatibility.

[Comment 1 Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) 2013-12-12 09:09:40 UTC]

Would you want to provide it under dev-python/xlwt, or do some virtual?

[Comment 2 Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) 2013-12-12 09:10:30 UTC]

Also, see https://github.com/python-excel/xlwt/pull/32.

[Comment 3 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2013-12-12 09:13:59 UTC]

(In reply to Dirkjan Ochtman from comment #2)
> Also, see https://github.com/python-excel/xlwt/pull/32.

So no response from original upstream.

[Comment 4 Michał Górny 2013-12-12 17:37:58 UTC]

(In reply to Justin Lecher from comment #3)
> (In reply to Dirkjan Ochtman from comment #2)
> > Also, see https://github.com/python-excel/xlwt/pull/32.
> 
> So no response from original upstream.

To be honest, if it were for me, I wouldn't be really happy with someone telling me to use his fancy compat library that no other package uses. Especially that there're 2to3 and 3to2 already.

[Comment 5 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2013-12-12 19:43:10 UTC]

(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #4)
> To be honest, if it were for me, I wouldn't be really happy with someone
> telling me to use his fancy compat library that no other package uses.
> Especially that there're 2to3 and 3to2 already.

Does this mean a 2to3 run will fix it?

[Comment 6 Michał Górny 2013-12-12 19:47:05 UTC]

I have no idea. Just saying that I doubt that upstream will really like this. And I'm not really convinced that the person who did the fork will actually maintain it. Not that I say that xlwt itself will be more maintained...

[Comment 7 Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) 2013-12-12 21:41:04 UTC]

I agree with Michał that just adding this is probably not the best approach. The future package is definitely non-standard. Let's bet on the xlwt maintainer actually stepping up to the plate at some point.

[Comment 8 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2015-06-16 07:21:20 UTC]

dev-python/xlwt has py3 support now