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

[Matt Turner]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 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?

Yeah, I've continued using the piglit-run.py/piglit-summary.py
scripts. I don't know what I would gain by switching, but I would lose
the ability to tab complete their names. :)