[Piglit] Time to switch to Python 3 already?

[Dylan Baker]

Wait, you guys don't have a 2.6 requirement anymore?

On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 04:48:11 PM Brian Paul wrote:
> 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
> 
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