Resurrecting this, since we keep seeing Python 3 issues pop up, which are unnoticed by tests and only picked up by users :( The 3 distros used for functional tests (Centos7, Ubuntu Xenial, Ubuntu Bionic) are capable of Python3, so I would like to see us enable the flags required for a Python3 only Ceph, which seem to be: -DWITH_PYTHON2=OFF -DWITH_PYTHON3=ON -DMGR_PYTHON_VERSION=3 On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 9:09 AM Alfredo Deza <adeza@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 8:50 PM Brad Hubbard <bhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > At the moment we have two problems on Fedora 29, one involves the > > installing of dependencies [1] and the other is a cmake error [2][3] > > that revolves around Python2 not being linked to the same openssl > > library version as was shipped with the OS. The solutions to > > "re-enable" python2 functionality for these issues are either not > > attractive to the developers or non-existent given the drive to > > transition and python2's imminent demise. With this in mind are there > > any objections to focussing on making the jump to only supporting > > python3 in Nautilus, at least on Fedora29 and above? This should > > probably be considered for all distros, as it's probably time, but > > Fedora is the one with the immediate need. > > I would be +1 for this, I don't think we support any distros today > that aren't capable of having Python 3 packages around. The current > problem we have > is that there isn't a Python3-exclusive environment, which prevents us > from testing Ceph in such an environment. > > > > > > [1] https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/37301 > > [2] http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/36425 > > [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643450 > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > Brad
