[Piglit] [ANNOUNCE] python 3 is here... and python 2 is staying

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Dylan Baker <baker.dylan.c at gmail.com> wrote:
> Quoting Matt Turner (2016-02-08 21:06:58)
>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Dylan Baker <baker.dylan.c at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I just pushed patches to hybridize the framework to use either python
>> > 3.3+ or 2.7.
>> >
>> > Everything should keep working as normal. Unless you have python 3.x,
>> > then you'll need to rerun CMake to pick up the changes.
>>
>> There's still a handful of *.py files with #!/usr/bin/env python2:
>>
>> generated_tests/random_ubo-arb_uniform_buffer_object.py:#!/usr/bin/env python2
>> generated_tests/random_ubo.py:#!/usr/bin/env python2
>> generated_tests/random_ubo_trim.py:#!/usr/bin/env python2
>> piglit-print-commands.py:#!/usr/bin/env python2
>> piglit-resume.py:#!/usr/bin/env python2
>> piglit-run.py:#!/usr/bin/env python2
>> piglit-summary-html.py:#!/usr/bin/env python2
>> piglit-summary.py:#!/usr/bin/env python2
>> self-tests/test-installed-piglit-script-imports-correct-framework-module:#!/usr/bin/env
>> python2
>
>
> I thought I'd mentioned that in the commit, but apparently I did only in
> the cover letter.
>
> The random_ubo_stuff is not plugged into anything at the moment, and I
> have a WIP branch for those, but getting the same output from python 2
> and python 3 for generators without numpy is tricky.
>
> The piglit-* command were left intentionally. They're legacy interfaces
> and we don't add new ones when adding new functions to the 'piglit'
> command (piglit summary aggregate, for example). Personally, I'd rather
> get rid of them (other than print-commands, which I should probably
> update).

Really? I think it's a lot more straightforward to use them than the
"piglit" megarunner thing... not sure why that was added tbh. But
since the regular commands stayed, I didn't object at the time. Should
I have?

  -ilia