<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Mark Hatle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark.hatle@windriver.com" target="_blank">mark.hatle@windriver.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 5/5/16 7:13 AM, Philip Balister wrote:<br>
> On 05/04/2016 05:29 PM, Mark Hatle wrote:<br>
>> On 5/4/16 3:56 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:<br>
>>> My proposal is we decide to have the flag day, we queue up the patches<br>
>>> on a python3 branch both in oe-core and bitbake, then we switch when we<br>
>>> get successful autobuilder builds. I'd ideally like to do this quite<br>
>>> soon and get one with it (within a few weeks), leaving plenty of time<br>
>>> to handle issues and the other changes planned for this release cycle<br>
>>> and give other layers time to adapt.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I will likely push things so the basics in the core work, I'll then<br>
>>> need help for things like toaster, the QA framework, the supporting<br>
>>> tools (devtool, recipetool and so on).<br>
>>><br>
>>> Does anyone object to this?<br>
>><br>
>> I think this is a good plan. Flag day, and switch.<br>
>><br>
>> Question, do we need any type of identifier in layers to say they're "python3"<br>
>> compatible or not?<br>
><br>
> Layers that are python2 will need krogoth branches. I'd expect master<br>
> branches to follow oe-core/master and jump to python3.<br>
<br>
</span>I don't disagree, but my experience has been that branching is late or never in<br>
a lot of layers.<br>
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This might be a place where we need to plan to go through the layer index and at<br>
least see if the layer parses -- and flag things that no longer parse? (I don't<br>
even know if this is something reasonable to attempt.)<br>
<br>
My fear is just we've already got a lot of "broken" (without defining that)<br>
layers in the index, and I think it will be worse once the python3 change<br>
happens. I'd really like to make sure we don't confuse people with various errors.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Perhaps we should consider some sort of flag or dependency/versioning statement in layer.conf?</div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Christopher Larson<br>clarson at kergoth dot com<br>Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus<br>Maintainer - Tslib<br>Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics</div>
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