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

Joshua Harlow harlowja at yahoo-inc.com
Wed Jul 17 23:10:57 UTC 2013


Sure, just this is going to get harder and harder to fix. Has there been thought on the path forward.

Anything the TC can get agreed upon (especially with input from distributions creators). 

Thx for the update! Hope we can figure out a path forward as this gets more painful.

Sent from my really tiny device...

On Jul 17, 2013, at 4:26 PM, "Monty Taylor" <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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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