As long as we follow PEP 394, I'm super excited. (including on our mozilla-build windows system, which counts as 'unix-like')
On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 9:12 AM, David Burns <dbu...@mozilla.com> wrote: > I am not saying it should but if we have a requirement for python 3, we are > also going to have a requirement for py2 to both be available for local > development. > > David > > On 11 November 2017 at 14:10, Andrew Halberstadt <ahalberst...@mozilla.com> > wrote: > >> 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 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
