Bug 7622

Summary:	python3 - bitbake support
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BitBake	Reporter:	Alexandru Damian <alexandru.damian>
Component:	bitbake	Assignee:	Alexandru Damian <alexandru.damian>
Status:	VERIFIED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Cristina Agurida <cristina-danielax.agurida>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Medium	CC:	cristina-danielax.agurida, poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher
Version:	1.9
Target Milestone:	1.9
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Alexandru Damian 2015-04-16 22:26:06 UTC

Python2 is set to be deprecated (end of life) in 2020.
http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/

5 years ahead is a reasonable time length to start porting bitbake and relevant code from Python2 to Python3.
Debian's project to port the Python codebase already started:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/04/msg00005.html

Django 1.6 which is used for Toaster already runs on Python3:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/python3/

Python's porting documentation:
https://docs.python.org/3/howto/pyporting.html

This bug tracks the work needed to run bitbake under Python3. 

I propose using the Python 2/3 Compatible Source strategy, as used by Django, that enables the same code base to work without modification on both Python2 and Python3.

Comment 1 Stephen K Jolley 2015-04-30 14:38:11 UTC

This is the same bug as 2398

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2398 ***

Comment 2 Cristina Agurida 2015-05-27 09:38:22 UTC

Verified as duplicate.