Re: Python version and jhbuild

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

On 06/25/2012 08:48 AM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com> wrote:
>> Hey all.
>>
>> Migrating Orca to Python 3 has been on the to-do list for a while now.
>> Upon being told that Ubuntu was hoping to have its next release be all
>> Python 3 (at least for their live CD), I decided to go ahead and do it.
>> That work has been committed to master. Furthermore, the Accessibility
>> Team felt that this was worth doing for all its modules. As a result,
>> pyatspi2 is now Python 3 compatible and Accerciser's migration is
>> underway (just waiting for the code review).
>>
>> This change, unfortunately, makes jhbuild unhappy when building Orca
>> (and later Accerciser) in an environment which lacks Python 3 versions
>> of the build dependencies. I was hoping it would be relatively
>> straightforward to adjust jhbuild to handle this new situation. But the
>> solution didn't jump out at me, so I asked in #release-team because I
>> didn't want to make their lives unpleasant during next week's release.
>> What I was told by Walters is:
>>
>> " ... anyways we don't have a way in jhbuild to express a dependency on
>> python3 that i'm aware of (jhbuild has always just been an out of date
>> snapshot of some of the dependencies of a given component)."
>>
>> And Matthias said I should ask here. :)
>>
>> Ideas?
>>
> 
> So, after giving this a weekend, I don't think we can do a python 2->3
> transition for 3.6 without some advance planning.
> And having both python2 and python3 dependencies in the core GNOME
> moduleset is a non-starter.
> 

So are you saying I need to revert back to Python 2?