On 04/17/2013 05:48 PM, Kenneth Graunke wrote:
Does anyone object to porting to Python 3.x (and dropping 2.x support)?
Some useful data points:
- Debian stable has 3.1, testing/unstable have 3.2
- Fedora 18 and Arch Linux have 3.3
- Windows installers for 3.3 are available on python.org
- Mac OS X support for 3.3 is also available on python.org
- numpy and mako are both available for Python 3 now. numpy is packaged on
Arch and Debian testing/unstable. Not sure
how much of a pain it is to get on Windows/OSX.
- intel-gpu-tools now requires Python 3.x to build.
Jon Severinsson did a great job in making a hybrid solution that works with
both Python 2 and 3, but I'm a bit nervous
about some of it. For example, unicode stuff has bitten us in the past, and
supporting only one major language version
seems a lot easier to get right. It'd also be a lot cleaner to just transition
to Python 3.x.
Agreed, it would be a lot cleaner to transition to solely Python 3. There is no
reason to introduce the maintenance
overhead of supporting both Python 3 and 2 when 3 is available (and easily
installed) for all platforms of interest.
I want to see Piglit ported to Python 3 and with 2.x support dropped.
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