[CRIU] p.haul python versions?

[Saied Kazemi]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Tycho Andersen <
tycho.andersen at canonical.com> wrote:

> Hi Saied,
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:33:53PM -0700, Saied Kazemi wrote:
> > +filbranden@
> >
> > Hi Tycho,
> >
> > I was surprised by the comment, so I asked around...  Apparently, that
> > comment (https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/issues/293) is about no plans to
> > support Python 3 for caffee.  This has nothing to do with Google not
> > supporting protobuf in Python 3.  In fact, gRPC (
> > https://github.com/grpc/grpc) which will support Python 2.7 and Python
> 3.4
> > requires protobuf.
> >
> > I am not a Python expert and am not involved with protobuf development
> > efforts but can direct you to the right folks if you need more detailed
> > information.
>
> Whoops, wrong link :)
>
> https://github.com/google/protobuf/issues/646
>
> The release notes for 2.6.0 say that there is python3 support, but it
> doesn't actually build. I see that the 3.0.0 alpha support done by a
> handful of folks, but it's not clear from the issue tracker what the
> status is. Anyway, good to hear that it will be supported, it
> surprised me that it wasn't already.
>
> Do you have any idea when a 3.0.0 final will be tagged? I don't mind
> porting crit/p.haul to python3, but I would like to have something
> that we can release in Ubuntu 16.04.
>

No, I don't know but I will try to find the answer and let you know.

--Saied

Tycho
>
> > --Saied
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Tycho Andersen <
> > tycho.andersen at canonical.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 10:20:35AM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> > > > On 10/20/2015 12:40 AM, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm curious as to what versions of python p.haul will (does)
> support.
> > > > > I'd like to use the in-tree LXC API, but it is python3 only. I can
> put
> > > > > some import guards around this and try to protect it, but if
> p.haul is
> > > > > python3 only then I'll avoid doing that :)
> > > >
> > > > Well, I use 2.7, presumably everybody else at Odin does the same :)
> > > >
> > > > If you think that the easier way to go is to patch p.haul to work on
> > > > python3, you're welcome ;)
> > >
> > > Euh. So I don't think it would actually be that hard, but we do need
> > > protobuf (p.haul imports crit, which imports protobufs), and as near
> > > as I can tell, google isn't interested in porting python's protobuf
> > > libraries to python3:
> > >
> > > https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/issues/293
> > >
> > > it might be possible with some hacks it looks like, but I'd hate to
> > > rely on those. There is an out of tree LXC binding for python2, but it
> > > is not well maintained. I wonder if fork + exec is the best option
> > > here. :(
> > >
> > > Tycho
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