On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Brian Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/17/2013 11:32 AM, Kenneth Graunke wrote: >> >> On 04/17/2013 07:37 AM, Brian Paul wrote: >>> >>> On 04/17/2013 03:48 AM, 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. >>> >>> >>> We have an environment here that uses Python 2.6. I've had to hack a >>> few things to make piglit work there but it's not bad. Going to Python >>> 3.x might be pretty painful, but I'd have to do some research to know >>> for sure, and I don't have time right now. >>> >>> Can we please hold off on this for a while? >>> >>> -Brian >> >> >> I thought Dylan's recent patches to use argparse required 2.7 and >> dropped support for 2.6...so I'm confused how your system would work. >> Or, is that what you're hacking around? > > > In that case I was able to simply copy argparse.py into our piglit tree and > set PYTHONPATH. >
Can we keep a tag of the last one :) RHEL6 ships latest Mesa drivers but out dated python, and I'd like to not break the testing workflow too much. Dave. _______________________________________________ Piglit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/piglit
