On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 9:44 PM David Burns <dbu...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> My only concern about this is how local developer environments are going > to be when it comes to testing. While I am sympathetic to moving to python > 3 we need to make sure that all the test harnesses have been moved over and > this is something that needs a bit of coordination. Luckily a lot of the > mozbase stuff is already moving to python 3 support but that still means we > need to have web servers and the actual test runners moved over too. > > David > For libraries like mozbase, I think the plan will be to support both 2 and 3 at the same time. There are libraries (like 'six') that make this possible. I'd bet there are even parts of the build system that will still need to support both at the same time. With that in mind, I don't think python 3 support for test harnesses needs to block the build system. Andrew On 10 November 2017 at 23:27, Gregory Szorc <g...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> For reasons outlined at >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1388447#c7, we would like >> to make Python 3 a requirement to build Firefox sometime in the Firefox 59 >> development cycle. (Firefox 59 will be an ESR release.) >> >> The requirement will likely be Python 3.5+. Although I would love to make >> that 3.6 if possible so we can fully harness modern features and >> performance. >> >> I would love to hear feedback - positive or negative - from downstream >> packagers and users of various operating systems and distributions about >> this proposal. >> >> Please send comments to dev-bui...@lists.mozilla.org or leave them on >> bug 1388447. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-builds mailing list >> dev-bui...@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-builds >> >> _______________________________________________ > dev-builds mailing list > dev-bui...@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-builds > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
