Mesa >= 23.3.x no longer supporting python 3.6 ...

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 01:37:52PM +0100, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I noticed that with version 23.3.x Mesa no longer can be built with python
> 2.6. It still worked with Mesa 23.2.1.

Of course I've meant python 3.6. Sorry for the confusion!

> It fails with
> 
> [   95s] Traceback (most recent call last):
> [   95s]   File "../src/intel/genxml/gen_bits_header.py", line 23, in <module>
> [   95s]     import intel_genxml
> [   95s]   File "/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/mesa-23.3.3/src/intel/genxml/intel_
> genxml.py", line 5
> [   95s]     from __future__ import annotations
> [   95s]     ^
> [   95s] SyntaxError: future feature annotations is not defined
> 
> When removing __future__ line like this
> 
> --- mesa-23.3.3/src/intel/genxml/intel_genxml.py.orig   2024-01-12 10:26:26.314070540 +0100
> +++ mesa-23.3.3/src/intel/genxml/intel_genxml.py        2024-01-12 10:26:38.682317490 +0100
> @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
>  # Copyright © 2019, 2022 Intel Corporation
>  # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
>  
> -from __future__ import annotations
>  from collections import OrderedDict
>  import copy
>  import io
> 
> this results in the following failure.
> 
> [  113s] Traceback (most recent call last):
> [  113s]   File "../src/intel/genxml/gen_bits_header.py", line 23, in <module>
> [  113s]     import intel_genxml
> [  113s]   File "/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/mesa-23.3.3/src/intel/genxml/intel_
> genxml.py", line 51, in <module>
> [  113s]     def add_struct_refs(items: typing.OrderedDict[str, bool], node: et.
> Element) -> None:
> [  113s] AttributeError: module 'typing' has no attribute 'OrderedDict'
> 
> I'm wondering if Mesa developers are interested in still supporting python
> 3.6?
> 
> Unfortunately currently it's not an option for SUSE's enterprise product to
> update to a newer python (would be probably 3.12) (due to many customers still
> relying on python 3.6 and we lack the ressources of adding and maintaining a
> (full!) second python development stack). :-(
> 
> If the answer to the question above is a no. :-( How hard would it be to
> adjust the code to python 3.6? Any suggestions to how it could be done? Or is
> there any other workaround available?
> 
> I had a quick look between 23.2.1 and 23.3.3 and I've seen that
> 
>   from __future__ import annotations
> 
> and
> 
>   typing.OrderedDict
> 
> have already been used in 23.2.1 (although it was in gen_sort_tags.py and
> now has been moved to new intel_genxml.py). So not sure why this fails now
> or was working before ...
> 
> Any help here would be appreciated. SUSE is definitely interested in shipping
> the latest Mesa with our latest enterprise product.

Thanks,
Stefan

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