On 01/11/2016 08:39 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 03:50:25PM -0500, Russell Bryant wrote: >> Fix imports of xmlrpclib to be compatible with Python 3. Python 2 had >> xmlrpclib (client) and SimpleXMLRPCServer (server). In Python 3, these >> have been renamed to xmlrpc.client and xmlrpc.server. >> >> The solution implemented here is to use the six library. It may seem >> excessive for this particular issue, but the six library provides >> helpers for Python 2 and 3 compatibility for many different issues. >> This is just the first of many uses of the six library. >> >> Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <russ...@ovn.org> > > I guess that the intent is for python-six to be installed at build time > and at runtime, right?
Yes, both. > I guess we should add Python 2.7+ and Python six to the "Installation > Requirements" section in INSTALL.md (so far they're only in the build > requirements section, which I guess is an existing oversight). Good point, I'll add it. > Also we should update the various packaging to require python-six. > Here's an appropriate patch for Debian (I think; it's untested because > I've had patch conflicts): I'll apply your incremental. I'll have to rely on you or someone else to test it, though. I'll also apply the equivalent updates to the RPM spec file. Thanks, -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
