Support for Python 3

[mcandre]

Please add support for Python 3.

Some tools require Python 2, some require Python 3, and this makes it really hard to setup a build environment. Better to support both when possible.

[TooTallNate]

Ditto on #194: this is an issue with upstream gyp, and in fact they are aware of the problem: http://code.google.com/p/gyp/issues/detail?id=36

Go make some noise in that issue if you want to see Python 3 supported (or better yet, send the patch!).

[CamiloMM]

As someone who doesn't do Python: why is there still so much incompatibility? Python 3.0 was released on 2008 and has a lot of advantages over 2.x, so why does 2.x still hold so much predominance?

[unbornchikken]

I've started a petition, you can sign it there: https://www.change.org/petitions/google-inc-upgrade-gyp-to-support-phyton-3

[mcandre]

@unbornchikken Er, you may want to correct a typo in the petition: "Phyton 3".

[CamiloMM]

@unbornchikken Is everything a petition nowadays...? Nevermind, signed.

@mcandre Well, that's because he's phyton for it.

[unbornchikken]

typo fixed. never start a petition after midnight.

meme idea: i do petitions instead of PRs 😊

[TooTallNate]

I appreciate the sentiment, but I believe Google is going to be focusing their time on gn these days. They have plans to phase out gyp before the end of 2014. I'm looking for some time/motivation to write node-gn 😄

[unbornchikken]

hm, should i start a new petition? 😊

i think it's maximum a couple days of work to update gyp scripts to p3, it can be done if they care. the problem is that v8 guys are thinking in v8 even today, but there is a mutch larger dependent platform to care, but they don't. i can understand, they got dollars for v8 not for node. maybe online activity like petitions will wake up their bosses, and give guys some days to patch shit up.

[unbornchikken]

For motivation: start a repo, and put a Donate button in the readme. You will be suprised. ;)

[CamiloMM]

@TooTallNate Then you'll just have to make massive pull requests for each package out there that uses node-gyp. No biggie :)

(On all honesty, I'm rooting for something better to come along).

[unbornchikken]

coz da petition didnt help: https://github.com/unbornchikken/cmake-js

[untitaker]

Please try to use env python2. The current version of node-gyp completely breaks on distributions that have their default Python binary set to Python 3.