[Piglit] Time to switch to Python 3 already?

[Brian Paul]

Correct.

-Brian

On 06/25/2014 04:53 PM, Dylan Baker wrote:
> 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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