[vbox-dev] Port vboxapi to Python 3

[Alexey Eromenko]

Thanks !
... and no-need to backport new features (such as python3) to VBox 4.3.

Better release it together with future Virtualbox 4.4?

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Klaus Espenlaub
<klaus.espenlaub at oracle.com> wrote:
> Ilya,
>
> On 22.04.2014 15:21, Ilya Kulakov wrote:
>> Since the last patch I found 2 issues:
>> - In one place I forgot to replace python2.6+ execpt syntax with python2.3 compatible
>> - Forgot to replace all that __dict__ magic with python3 compatible setattr/getattr
>>
>> Updated patch is attached.
>
> The relevant part of it (some unused code has been eliminated in the
> mean time, obsoleting a chunk of the patch) has been applied to trunk in
> https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/54057/vbox
>
> Thank you very much for the contribution and for your patience.
>
> It's not yet decided if or how fast this will make it into VirtualBox
> 4.3 - at the moment we're using the (python 2.x based) VirtualBox
> Validation Kit to see if there are any incompatibilities.
>
> Note that this will give python3 support on Windows only. The changes
> cover only COM, because the Python JACOB middleware does not need any
> native libraries (which don't come with JACOB).
>
> Getting this to work on all other platform means adapting PyXPCOM, which
> consists of both python and native library components
> (libpython*.*.{so,dylib}) which are built as part of VirtualBox.
> Currently there is no attempt at doing this for Python 3.x, so it won't
> be able to talk to the VirtualBox API. This explains the trouble Alexey
> Eromenko had when testing it on Linux.
>
> More contributions are always welcome... if none are coming we'll try to
> somehow do the rest of the work, but there is no promise this will
> happen instantly.
>
> Klaus
>
>> Best regards,
>> Ilya Kulakov
>
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