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[Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 15, 2011, at 03:22 PM, Robert Collins wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sep 13, 2011, at 05:23 PM, Francis J. Lacoste wrote:
>>
>>>> Francis tells me that Launchpad already runs fairly well on Python 2.7 +
>>>> Oneiric on developer machines, with just one or two test failures.
>>>
>>>That's actually from hear-say and from a while back. I don't know the exact
>>>status of this today, but to me the biggest hurdles around this have always
>>>been the deployment issues.
>>
>> Can any other LP devs confirm?
>
>Yes. Its -always- about deployments.

Sorry, the main thing I was asking for confirmation of was whether Launchpad
is actually known to work with Python 2.7 and/or Oneiric.  Are any developers
using this combination on their dev machines?

>If we had a simple export PYTHON= and rebuild change, then a single
>deployment can upgrade us on all machines at once. Bada-boom,
>bada-bing. We do need to be reasonably sure before we kick the actual
>transition off, that its going to work, but instead of a Big Deal, its
>relatively no-brainer.

Very cool.  Anyway, assuming I can fix the last two build failures, I'm going
to try to build Launchpad in a Lucid VM with the PPA enabled.  Let's just say
it's been a while since I tried to build and run LP locally. ;)

-Barry

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