Re: Intent to require Python 3 to build Firefox 59 and later

Also sprach Gregory Szorc: 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. Hold your horses with 3.6. Only Python 3.5.3 is at the time of writing available in the most common Linux distribu

Re: Intent to require Python 3 to build Firefox 59 and later

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 mo

Re: Intent to require Python 3 to build Firefox 59 and later

The current Ubuntu LTS release has 3.5.2, I wouldn't try to force 3.6. On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 3:46 PM, Adam Moore wrote: > The current Ubuntu LTS release has 3.5.2, I wouldn't try to force 3.6. > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > >> For reasons outlined at >> https://bu

Intent to require Python 3 to build Firefox 59 and later

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 mak