On 04/25/2016 05:22 AM, Alexander Kanavin wrote: > Hello everyone, > > we want to deprecate Python 2 in oe-core and set Python 3 as the > default, preferred choice. What does this mean?
What is the target to make Python3 default, 2.2? > > 1) Introducing new Python 2 dependencies via new recipes or additional > DEPENDS etc. in existing recipes will be discouraged: you'll have to > provide a reason. Will there be any kind of QA warning for these dependencies? this will help scope how many recipes need to be looked at. there are a lot of layers out there. > > 2) Bitbake itself is at the moment Python 2 only - which will be addressed. What will the env setup script display then? > > 3) OE-core recipes that are currently dependent on Python 2 will be > moved to Python 3 whenever possible (e.g. when nothing in oe-core > requires them to be built against python 2). This may break some of your > code, so please do try any patchsets before they land in master (or > stable release), and suggest alternatives. > > 4) Of course, there is a large mass of Python 2 code out there, which > may never be ported to Python 3, so Python 2 will continue to be > provided at least until it's no longer supported upstream (the current > date is 2020). > > I'll prepare an initial patchset for review, so please keep an eye on it. thanks for doing the the initial work. - armin > > > Thanks, > Alex -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
