GSoC: Scripts are (mostly) working

Looks like another week or so has ended which means a status report by me. Instead of porting Sphinx itself I took my time to port the scripts which are used to check the coding style and a couple of other things.

This means that there is no difference between developing Sphinx with 2.x or 3.x anymore as long as you ignore the errors and failures the test suite gives you when using 3.x.

There still are some problems with the reindent script which is in use. I got the latest one from the CPython svn, adjusted it a bit so it can be converted with 2to3 but for some reason it behaves differently with 3.x.

P.S.: You might have noticed that I changed the blog title, that is because I plan on publishing more non GSoC related posts and I think opening another blog is not worth it.

Progress on the 3.x Port

Since the beginning of the project I was able to remvove every deprecation warning which occurs when running the Sphinx test suite with python -3. Also it is now possible, using distribute, to install it using Python 3. However there are still several problems which do not cause any deprecation warnings and are not fixed by 2to3. So it is not usable for now.

The remaining problems are usually problems with handling strings and files. Even when used correctly in 2.x the changes made with 3.x are causing several problems.

I did nearly nothing during the last week in terms of coding so I will do a lot of work this weekend and make sure to have more time in the future.