Mesa >= 23.3.x and python 2.6 ...

[Stefan Dirsch]

Hi Jordan

Thanks for digging into this!

On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 12:10:37PM -0800, Jordan Justen wrote:
> On 2024-01-18 04:37:52, 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.
> 
> As mentioned in other emails, this was typo where 3.6 was intended.
> 
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> 
> I guess this code first appeared in Dylan's:
> 
> 4fd2e15855d ("intel/genxml: add type annotations to gen_sort_tags.py")
> 
> and then became part of the standard tests a few commits later in:
> 
> 1f0a0a46d97 ("meson: run genxml sort tests")
> 
> back in Oct 2022. So, I guess at that point 'ninja test' would have
> failed with Python 3.6.
> 
> Then, I suppose I propagated this to being used on every build in:
> 
> 0495f952d48 ("intel/genxml: Add genxml_import.py script")
> 
> in Sept 2023.

Thanks. This explains why I've found this code already in older releases, but
it didn't fail for me yet. You said tests. Is this just a test, I could
disable (as dirty hack)? I was assuming it would generate code ...

> Maybe Dylan knows how we might make this compatible with Python 3.6,
> assuming we want to. :)
> 
> https://devguide.python.org/versions/

Yes, I know. It's EOL since a long time now ... sigh

Thanks,
Stefan

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