From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com [134.134.136.24]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B2984C800B9 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:01:29 -0500 (CDT) Received: from orsmga002.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.21]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 27 Jun 2011 13:01:28 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.65,434,1304319600"; d="scan'208";a="18939344" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.255.13.234]) ([10.255.13.234]) by orsmga002.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 27 Jun 2011 13:01:28 -0700 Message-ID: <4E08E198.8010101@intel.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:01:28 -0700 From: Scott Garman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: poky@yoctoproject.org References: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] bitbake wrapper: exit if python v3 is detected X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:01:29 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 06/14/2011 06:42 PM, 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. Ping? Scott -- Scott Garman Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto Project Intel Open Source Technology Center