Giulio, are you speaking for Red Hat here, or is this just your opinion? And have you actually tried to doing what you propose? Regards, -peter
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Giulio Fidente <gfide...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 11/25/2013 09:37 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote: >> >> On Monday, November 25, 2013 7:35:51 AM, Zhi Kun Liu wrote: >>> >>> Does that mean Tempest could not run on python 2.6 in the future? >> >> >> Well so if you're running a single-node setup of OpenStack on a VM on >> top of RHEL 6 and running Tempest from there, yeah, this is an >> inconvenience, but it's a pretty simple fix, right? I just run my >> OpenStack RHEL 6 VM and have an Ubuntu 12.04 or Fedora 19 or whatever >> distro-that-supports-py27 I want running Tempest against it. Am I >> missing something? >> >> FWIW, trying to keep up with the changes in Tempest when you're running >> on python 2.6 is no fun, especially with how tests are skipped >> (skipException causes a test failure if you don't have a special >> environment variable set). Plus you don't get parallel execution of the >> tests. >> >> So I agree with the approach even though it's going to hurt me in the >> short-term. > > > I'd second this, the benefits are worth it! > > Plus, with RHEL you can use "software collections" (1) which allow you to > install multiple versions of say, python (including 27 and 33), using yum > (or scl) so you just have to launch tempest with something like: > > $ scl enable python27 ./run_tests.sh > > 1. http://red.ht/1aRdx32 > -- > Giulio Fidente > GPG KEY: 08D733BA | IRC: giulivo > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev