[Piglit] Time to switch to Python 3 already?

Ian Romanick idr at freedesktop.org
Tue Jun 24 11:29:20 PDT 2014


On 06/24/2014 10:30 AM, Matt Turner wrote:
> It was more than a year ago now [1] that we agreed to "hold these
> patches back for a short time (maybe a month) to give people time to
> get ready for the transition"

That would certainly make the 'Revert "python: change she-bang to
python2"' debate moot.  I'd support the move just for that. :)

I think picking a specific date to make a python2 branch and land the
python3 patches is a good idea.  How does Friday, June 27th sound?

> In the mean time, we've struggled with Python 2.7 regressions and
> dealt with many "this breaks with Python 2.6" comments. Is it time to
> finally stop?
> 
> RHEL people seemed to want to continue with Python 2.7 support. Time
> to make a 2.7 branch that you guys can maintain on your own without
> causing problems for Mesa developers using piglit every day?
> 
> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/piglit/2013-April/005402.html
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