I am not saying it should but if we have a requirement for python 3, we are also going to have a requirement for py2 to both be available for local development.
David On 11 November 2017 at 14:10, Andrew Halberstadt <ahalberst...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 9:44 PM David Burns <dbu...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> My only concern about this is how local developer environments are going >> to be when it comes to testing. While I am sympathetic to moving to python >> 3 we need to make sure that all the test harnesses have been moved over and >> this is something that needs a bit of coordination. Luckily a lot of the >> mozbase stuff is already moving to python 3 support but that still means we >> need to have web servers and the actual test runners moved over too. >> >> David >> > > For libraries like mozbase, I think the plan will be to support both 2 and > 3 at > the same time. There are libraries (like 'six') that make this possible. > I'd bet > there are even parts of the build system that will still need to support > both at > the same time. > > With that in mind, I don't think python 3 support for test harnesses needs > to > block the build system. > > Andrew > > On 10 November 2017 at 23:27, Gregory Szorc <g...@mozilla.com> wrote: >> >>> For reasons outlined at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ >>> show_bug.cgi?id=1388447#c7, we would like to make Python 3 a >>> requirement to build Firefox sometime in the Firefox 59 development cycle. >>> (Firefox 59 will be an ESR release.) >>> >>> The requirement will likely be Python 3.5+. Although I would love to >>> make that 3.6 if possible so we can fully harness modern features and >>> performance. >>> >>> I would love to hear feedback - positive or negative - from downstream >>> packagers and users of various operating systems and distributions about >>> this proposal. >>> >>> Please send comments to dev-bui...@lists.mozilla.org or leave them on >>> bug 1388447. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dev-builds mailing list >>> dev-bui...@lists.mozilla.org >>> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-builds >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> dev-builds mailing list >> dev-bui...@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-builds >> > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
