From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Scott Garman <scott.a.garman@intel.com>
In-Reply-To: <cover.1308101091.git.scott.a.garman@intel.com>
References: <cover.1308101091.git.scott.a.garman@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:10:23 +0100
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Cc: poky@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] bitbake wrapper: exit if python v3 is detected
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On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 18:42 -0700, Scott Garman wrote:
> Make sure we're not using python v3.x. This check can't go into
> sanity.bbclass because bitbake's source code doesn't even pass
> parsing stage when used with python v3, so we catch it here so we
> can offer a meaningful error message.
> 
> This fixes bug [YOCTO #1128]
> 
> I did attempt to make changes to bitbake to get the source code to
> parse under python v3, but there are issues which make it too
> difficult to get the code to work with python v2 and v3. For example,
> importing modules within a package has changed significantly in v3
> in such a way that breaks compatability with v2.
> 
> The following changes since commit 7aa7673459376aff911cef820c9417c998d1aa96:
> 
>   meta-yocto/linux-yocto: update to match the renamed linux-yocto recipes (2011-06-14 09:21:32 -0700)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
>   git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib sgarman/bb-python-v3
>   http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=sgarman/bb-python-v3
> 
> Scott Garman (1):
>   bitbake wrapper: exit if python v3 is detected

Merged to master but please send OE-Core related patches to the OE-Core
list in future.

Cheers,

Richard