[openstack-dev] headsup - transient test failures on py26 ' cannot import name OrderedDict'

Monty Taylor mordred at inaugust.com
Wed Jul 17 20:22:17 UTC 2013



On 07/17/2013 07:20 AM, Joshua Harlow wrote:
> Well that's no fun,
> 
> RedhatEL and centos need python 2.6 support so it amazes/frustrates
> me that 2.6 can be broke. I think we need to depend on those that are
> supporting 2.6 to put pressure on upstream dependencies to ensure 2.6
> compat. Or  offer up alternative solutions that will work under 2.6.
> Having it fail for such a long period seems unacceptable to me. This
> is especially worrisome to me since RH should be finding these issues
> (I thought).

It wasn't broken for a long time - 0.0.16 broke 2.6 in testrepository
upstream. It was released on 17 July. 0.0.17 fixed it when it was
noticed. That was also released on 17 July. This was just a friendly
note about the break having happened and been caught.

> My 2 cents,
> 
> Sent from my really tiny device...
> 
> On Jul 17, 2013, at 5:15 AM, "Robert Collins"
> <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> 
>> Python 2.6 isn't one of the official supported Pythons for 
>> testrepository, and I managed to break that when I fixed tests on 
>> Python3.3 (which has more random dicts). So Testrepository 0.0.16 
>> breaks on 2.6, 0.0.17 is fixed.
>> 
>> However until the fixed version propogates into the
>> OpenStack-infra PyPI mirror, I think every Python2.6 run will fail
>> in this way.
>> 
>> a) sorry. b) Can we not say 'if you want to run OpenStack on a
>> Python version upstream python don't support, it's your problem,
>> not ours' ?
>> 
>> -Rob
>> 
>> -- Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com> Distinguished Technologist HP
>> Cloud Services
>> 
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