[Avocado-devel] Port python2 avocado-vt project to python3

[Xu Han]

On 02/28/2018 11:29 AM, Chunfu Wen wrote:
> Hi Xu,
>
> I noticed avocado target is 3.4 from https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/blob/master/.travis.yml.
> Currently, we just keep consistent with it.

OK, I see. Then I would suggest to consider python 3.6 as well since we 
are facing it in the next release.

Thanks,
Xu

>
> Best Regards,
>
> Chunfu Wen
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Xu Han" <xuhan at redhat.com>
> To: "Chunfu Wen" <chwen at redhat.com>, avocado-devel at redhat.com
> Cc: sathnaga at linux.vnet.ibm.com, bala24 at linux.vnet.ibm.com, weizhan at redhat.com, "Min Zhan" <mzhan at redhat.com>, "Guannan Sun" <gsun at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 11:18:13 AM
> Subject: Re: Port python2 avocado-vt project to python3
>
> Hi Chunfu,
>
> Thanks for your initiative!
>
> My only concern is that I'm not sure whether it means the porting would
> be compatible with python 3.6,
> do you have any idea about it?
>
> Thanks,
> Xu
>
> On 02/28/2018 10:42 AM, Chunfu Wen wrote:
>> Dear avocado-vt maintainers,
>>
>> This is announcement that libvirt QE automation team is launching one program to port avocado-vt project to python 3.
>> The reason for this is quite known that python2 will not be supported officially in the coming Linux release.
>>
>> The general requirements for this porting is to enable avocado-vt on python 3.4 while keeping compatible with python 2.7.
>> If you have any questions, please contact me.
>>
>> Thank you all in advance for upcoming patch reviewing!
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Libvirt QE
>>
>> Chunfu Wen
>>