<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 23, 2017, at 1:07 PM, Craig Rodrigues <<a href="mailto:rodrigc@crodrigues.org" class="">rodrigc@crodrigues.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Pierre Tardy <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:tardyp@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">tardyp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am not even sure if it is feasible to support (python3 + tw17pb) -> python2 + tw 12 pb.</div><div class="">I mean they are some fixes needed in twisted in order to make pb work across python version.</div><div class="">So if it is needed to upgrade twisted, then why not also upgrade to buildbot-worker (and move the worker to py3)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Because Python supports multiple platforms and it has been pointed out that getting</div><div class="">Python 3 on some platforms is harder than others.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Pierre wasn’t clear — but if indeed we must upgrade twisted on this old slave, it is really substantially harder to use python3? If we do have to upgrade twisted, the comparison should be on how hard it is to do that vs doing that *and* upgrade python.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>On a platform where you have to live within the bounds of packages published by the (old) distro, it seems likely that both paths are likely going to be problematic. And outside that situation, it’s pretty easy to upgrade either twisted or python or both.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>In which contexts are we worried about the difficulty of getting python3?</div><br class=""></body></html>