[Piglit] Time to switch to Python 3 already?

[Brian Paul]

On 06/24/2014 07:24 PM, Kenneth Graunke wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 24, 2014 10:30:56 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"
>>
>> 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?
>
> Yes, please.  Python 3.0 came out 5.5 years ago.  Every major Linux
> distribution includes Python 3.x, and from what I've heard it's even
> installable in community repositories for enterprise distributions.  It's
> easily installable on Windows.
>
> We suggested waiting about a month, and it's been a year.  It's time.
>
> Making a tag or a branch prior to the switch seems reasonable to me.

At VMware we have an environment that only has Python 2.7 and probably 
won't get Python 3.0 for some time.

Having a Python 2.7 branch of piglit would be great (err, essential).  I 
guess we could cherry-pick new tests to it as needed.

-Brian