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

[Dylan Baker]

Quoting Matt Turner (2016-02-09 10:03:59)
> 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. :)

One of these days I should really finish writing those zsh and bash
completions I started, and then got frustrated by how difficult it is to
write bash and zsh completions....
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