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Choose your branching strategy
Description: Choosing whether to support Melodic and Noetic in the same branch is the first decision to make when Transitioning a package to Python 3.Tutorial Level: INTERMEDIATE
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This tutorial is part of a series about transitioning a ROS 1 package to Python 3.
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Choose your branching strategy
The first decision to make is whether you want your packages to support Melodic and Noetic on the same branch. If so, your package must support Python 2 and Python 3 at the same time.
Benefits:
- Others can test changes to your package sooner
- Packages that depend on yours can also choose to support both Python versions
Drawbacks:
- It is slightly more work to support both
- Making changes in Melodic always adds a risk for regressions
If you would like to use a separate branch for Noetic, then create a new branch for Noetic before continuing to the next tutorial.
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