Dave, Brian, and Jose, IIRC when we discussed migrating piglit to python 3 (and went with a hybrid approach instead), y'all had requirements to run on python 2, and couldn't support python 3. Is that still the case, or would moving to python 3 be acceptable?
Quoting Mathieu Bridon (2018-07-05 06:17:31) > This patch series allows building Mesa with Python 3. > > The build scripts are kept compatible with Python 2 as well, for those > platforms which don't have Python 3 yet. > > In fact, only the Meson build system is moved to Python 3, since it is > the only one I'm 100% sure has Python 3 available. (Meson itself > requires it) > > I briefly thought about adding an option to the Meson build system to > control which version of Python to build with, but decided against. I'm > happy to add it if you think it's necessary. > > I checked (with the `diff` command) that all the scripts output the > exact same things when built with Meson on: > > * master (as of f9b6dfd919 which includes my patches to make the build > output reproducible) > * the second to last patch in this series (that is, all the scripts > changed but still building with Python 2) > * the last patch in this series (that is, with Python 3) > > Each patch fixes a single type of problem in multiple > scripts/subsystems. As a result, it should be possible to review and > merge each patch independently (but probably not in order), without > breaking the build. > > It's a lot of changes: > > 86 files changed, 1965 insertions(+), 1833 deletions(-) > > The end goal is to be able to eventually remove Python 2 from future > versions of the Flatpak Freedesktop SDK, Mesa being one of the last few > things still requiring it. > > For those who prefer reviewing a git repo, I have pushed the changes to > a fork on the FDO Gitlab: > > * a branch compatible with both Python 2 and 3, but still building with > Python 2: > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/bochecha/mesa/tree/python-2-and-3 > > * a branch building with Python 3: > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/bochecha/mesa/tree/python3 > > > > _______________________________________________ > mesa-dev mailing list > mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
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