[Piglit] Requiring Python 3.x for Piglit?

[Tom Gall]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org> wrote:
> Does anyone object to porting to Python 3.x (and dropping 2.x support)?

I don't have strong objections, but more of a preference that 2.7+ and
3.x be supported.  My Ubuntu Raring (the next release of ubuntu)
install for instance has 2.7.4 as the default and the Ubuntu wiki
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Python/3) indicates they don't plan to go to
python 3 as the default until 14.04 LTS which would be next year.

> Some useful data points:
> - Debian stable has 3.1, testing/unstable have 3.2
> - Fedora 18 and Arch Linux have 3.3
> - Windows installers for 3.3 are available on python.org
> - Mac OS X support for 3.3 is also available on python.org
>
> - numpy and mako are both available for Python 3 now.  numpy is packaged on
> Arch and Debian testing/unstable.  Not sure how much of a pain it is to get
> on Windows/OSX.
>
> - intel-gpu-tools now requires Python 3.x to build.
>
> Jon Severinsson did a great job in making a hybrid solution that works with
> both Python 2 and 3, but I'm a bit nervous about some of it.  For example,
> unicode stuff has bitten us in the past, and supporting only one major
> language version seems a lot easier to get right.  It'd also be a lot
> cleaner to just transition to Python 3.x.

Sure supporting just one is easier, but we'd hardly be the only
project that supports both. Substantial projects like OpenStack can do
it, we can do it too.

> --Ken
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Tom

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