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Giulio, are you speaking for Red Hat here, or is this just your
opinion?  And have you actually tried to doing what you propose?
Regards, -peter

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Giulio Fidente <gfidente at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 11/25/2013 09:37 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
>>
>> On Monday, November 25, 2013 7:35:51 AM, Zhi Kun Liu wrote:
>>>
>>> Does that mean Tempest could not run on python 2.6 in the future?
>>
>>
>> Well so if you're running a single-node setup of OpenStack on a VM on
>> top of RHEL 6 and running Tempest from there, yeah, this is an
>> inconvenience, but it's a pretty simple fix, right?  I just run my
>> OpenStack RHEL 6 VM and have an Ubuntu 12.04 or Fedora 19 or whatever
>> distro-that-supports-py27 I want running Tempest against it.  Am I
>> missing something?
>>
>> FWIW, trying to keep up with the changes in Tempest when you're running
>> on python 2.6 is no fun, especially with how tests are skipped
>> (skipException causes a test failure if you don't have a special
>> environment variable set).  Plus you don't get parallel execution of the
>> tests.
>>
>> So I agree with the approach even though it's going to hurt me in the
>> short-term.
>
>
> I'd second this, the benefits are worth it!
>
> Plus, with RHEL you can use "software collections" (1) which allow you to
> install multiple versions of say, python (including 27 and 33), using yum
> (or scl) so you just have to launch tempest with something like:
>
> $ scl enable python27 ./run_tests.sh
>
> 1. http://red.ht/1aRdx32
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