[devel at bb.net] py3 support for buildbot

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

That's really awesome to hear!  That's been the major blocker to making
Buildbot Python-3 compatible.

Dustin

2016-08-25 4:42 GMT-04:00 Pierre Tardy <tardyp at gmail.com>:

> Hey,
>
> This is great news!
> +devel at buildbot.net <devel at buildbot.net>
>
> Seriously, I have few hint on how much time it is to run buildbot on
> python3 .
>
> I am currently focussed to releasing buildbot 0.9.0, and then 0.9.1 which
> will be about scalability and multimaster testing.
> So I would not be able to look at this too soon.
>
> Obviously if somebody else steps up. I will be glad to accept py3 compat
> patches!
>
> Cheers
> Pierre
>
>
> Le jeu. 25 août 2016 à 01:04, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at freebsd.org> a
> écrit :
>
>> Pierre,
>>
>> Today, glyph committed the following to Twisted's trunk which ports pb to
>> Python 3:
>>
>> https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pull/436
>>
>> This is not yet in any released version of Twisted that you can get with
>> "pip install",
>> but if you are OK with cloning this from git to try it out, you can test
>> it.
>>
>> I've talked to Glyph about this, and I suspect that the only restriction
>> is that
>> each client and server talking to each other on PB must be of similar
>> Python version.
>> For example, client and server must be both Python 3, or both Python 2.
>> Having a Python 2 client talking pb to a Python 3 server may not work.
>> This is because pb uses low-level implementation details of Python
>> objects, methods, and classes
>> which are now different between Python 2 and Python 3.
>>
>> How much work would it be to get buildbot working on Python 3?
>> --
>> Craig
>>
>
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