On Sep 13, 2011, at 05:23 PM, Francis J. Lacoste wrote: >> Francis tells me that Launchpad already runs fairly well on Python 2.7 + >> Oneiric on developer machines, with just one or two test failures. > >That's actually from hear-say and from a while back. I don't know the exact >status of this today, but to me the biggest hurdles around this have always >been the deployment issues.
Can any other LP devs confirm? >> After some discussion with Francis and Steve Langasek, I think a more >> fruitful approach will be to forward port Python 2.6 to a P-series PPA, and >> then make this available to Launchpad, so that it could continue to run on >> Python 2.6 even after it upgraded to 12.04. Then at its leisure, Launchpad >> would make the switch to Python 2.7 and get rid of the PPA. > >The only downside for us with this plan is that we won't be able to update to >python 2.7 until our data centre machines are migrated to 12.04 LTS. We are >usually eager to update, so probably among the first to upgrade, but that >still means that python 2.7 would be something like 8-9 months away. I don't >think it's such big a deal, but let's see if others disagree. Yep. Colin Watson gave me a few additional clues to chase down last night, so I'll probably spend one more day on back porting. I'll report back on progress before the week's out. >> Steve brought up one good question, which is whether, after upgrading the >> LP server to 12.04, you will also rebuild Launchpad. > >We don't rebuild by default after a reboot, but rebuilding isn't a big >deal :-) Cool. I don't know if you've started to plan or keep notes on moving to the next LTS. If so, add this one to the list. :) -Barry
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