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[Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Stephen,

On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 07:01:15PM -0400, Stephen M. Webb wrote:
> How does this affect the extensive use of Autopilot/Python2 in the desktop
> Unity 7 stack?

This does not impact the unity7 desktop autopilot usage.  My understanding
is that autopilot python2 support will continue to be maintained for
compatibility with unity7.  But as unity7 is not on the phone,
python-autopilot shouldn't be there either.

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> On Friday, May 2, 2014, Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > As you may be aware, we are transitioning autopilot to Python 3 by
> > default so that we can remove Python 2 from the touch images.  The key
> > to this is to complete the port of the default install click app tests
> > to Python 3, which will allow us to drop Python 2 dependencies from the
> > default autopilot packages.  This blueprint tracks our progress:
> >
> > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/core-1311-python3-roadmap
> >
> > We're down to just 3 more apps with merge proposals: gallery_app,
> > camera_app, and notes_app.  Once those are done, the autopilot team will
> > be landing the changes necessary to drop Python 2 dependencies.  Python
> > 2 is not allowed for any new test suites - use Python 3 and port your
> > existing Python 2 tests now.  It is expected that Python 2 support will
> > disappear in about a week.
> >
> > Here are a few examples you can refer to as you port your tests.
> >
> > address-book-app
> >
> https://code.launchpad.net/~barry/address-book-app/py3autopilot/+merge/210724
> >
> > notes-app
> > https://code.launchpad.net/~xnox/notes-app/py32/+merge/210254
> >
> > You can ping myself (barry), Dimitri (xnox), or come chat with anyone on
> > #ubuntu-autopilot if you need some help or a review.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -Barry
> >

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