On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Ilia Mirkin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Dylan Baker <[email protected]> wrote: >> This series makes the transition from python2 to python3. In general > > Out of curiousity, what's the motivation for this? I've been able to > avoid python3 quite nicely thus far, all it seems to do is break > compatibility with existing setups... Admittedly piglit is targeted at > developers, who probably have the latest and greatest stuff, so > perhaps not a huge issue.
Python 2.7 support sucks. Piglit with concurrency was simply broken with Python 2.7.4 and 2.7.5 because of some regression related to threading. Then piglit was broken again after the timeouts code was committed in November, until it was reverted, as far as we can tell because of a Python bug. And Python 3.3 just has the necessary support for doing this without rolling it ourselves. Basically, we're tired of relying on old and dead versions of python which are ill maintained and break often. _______________________________________________ Piglit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/piglit
