Re: [RFC] Edk2 BaseTools Python3 Migration Update

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 12/25/18 08:50, Gao, Liming wrote:
> Hi, all

> On Python3 migration
> https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55, we update Edk2
> BaseTools python source code with the compatible syntax to support
> Python2 and Python3 both. Here is code
> https://github.com/lgao4/edk2/tree/Python3 for dry run. To enable
> Python3, you just need to set PYTHON3_ENABLE environment as TRUE, then
> type edksetup.bat/edksetup.sh.

Hopefully I can test this sometime after I return from my PTO. No
promises as to when, for now.

> Without this setting, BaseTools still run with Python2. So, there is
> no change for current usage model with Python27.
>
> But, we have no enough resource to fully verify Python2 and Python3
> both. We will focus on Python3 validation. If anyone can help verify
> Python2, it will be great. And, if you meet with the issue on Python2,
> please file BZ. We still fix them.

Sounds good to me. I expect that I'll keep building upstream OVMF and
ArmVirtQemu on my RHEL7 laptop for a good while, using Python 2.

Thanks!
Laszlo