[Buildroot] [PATCH 00/20] package/python3: bump to version 3.10

[James Hilliard]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 7:56 AM Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Adam,
>
> On Sat,  9 Oct 2021 13:55:03 -0700
> Adam Duskett <aduskett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > In the following patch series python3 (eventually) gets bumped to version 3.10
> >
> > - The first parts involve updating packages that are not compatible with 3.10.
> >   Either by updating versions or adding patches.
> >
> > - Then I fix a typo in python-pathvalidate
> > - Then I complain about python-setuptools and split add support for both
> >   setuptools 48 (compatible with python2) and 58 (compatible with python3.10)
> > - Finally I update python3 to 3.10
> >
> > This patch series has been tested against every python2 and python3 unit-test
> > available in buildroot, including against https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/buildroot/patch/20211006203823.2740442-1-yann.morin.1998@free.fr/
> >
> > In addition, I also selected *EVERY* python module to ensure all of them at
> > least build against python3.10, and everything passes.
>
> Thanks a lot for this effort! Should we have a configuration, or a test
> case that builds all Python modules, to facilitate this kind of testing
> in the future ?
>
> Also, should we drop Python 2.x entirely before merging this, to avoid
> the complexity on the setuptools package? Or do we consider the
> complexity to be reasonable, and therefore we handle the Python 2.x
> removal later?

I think it's fine splitting setuptools for now, I had written a patch
doing something
similar a while back and I think it worked without major issues.

>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
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