Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH 2/2] Adds comment to regress-builder about its current brokenness.

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Fred!

Pushed and pulled.  Thanks.

On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 16:29:30 -0700
Fred Wright <address@hidden> wrote:

> This is the last remaining included Python program that isn't
> compatible with Python 3, and it doesn't make sense to fix that
> unless someone is motivated to fix its general outdatedness.
> 
> TESTED:
> No.
> ---
>  devtools/regress-builder | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/devtools/regress-builder b/devtools/regress-builder
> index 146aa49..67df358 100755
> --- a/devtools/regress-builder
> +++ b/devtools/regress-builder
> @@ -16,6 +16,14 @@ to seed from the system time.
>  If no options are given, the script performs a sequential test of all
>  possibilities.  This requires time on the order of 2 ** n where n is
>  the count of options.
> +
> +***IMPORTANT***:
> +Not only has this program not been updated for Python 3, but it
> hasn't been +touched in such a long time that it still expects to use
> make rather than +SCons to do builds (and probably has outdated
> notions of the drivers as well). +Although updating it for Python 3
> doesn't look too difficult, it doesn't make +sense to do so without
> first restoring it to correct operation with Python 2, +since the
> former fixes would otherwise be untestable. """
>  import os, sys, random, getopt, time
>  




RGDS
GARY
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