[HTCondor-devel] Python3 HTCondor bindings

[Brian Bockelman <bbockelm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Could someone stage an external for boost 1.54?  Jaime?

Right now, the boost external is in a curious state - it seems all platforms use 1.49 except for recent Windows, which uses 1.54 (and no external is staged for 1.54).  Unfortunately, boost 1.49 does not support python3.

Once we switch boost versions, I believe we have a working set of bindings for python3 (they pass unit tests for proper builds).

Also, I discovered why on Fedora 19 python3 is used even though on the other Fedoras, python2 is used.  From the NMI glue:

if($platform =~ /Fedora1[78]$/) {

        $defines{python_version} = "-DPythonLibs_FIND_VERSION:STRING=2.7";

}

Well, that's easy enough to fix!

Given working python3 bindings, there's still more CMake surgery to perform.  I think we ought to build up to three sets of python bindings, depending on what versions are present:

- Python 2.6

- System python

- Python 3

This would cover the use cases of RHEL5 (python2.4 is system default but installing python2.6 is a popular choice) and Fedora (python 2.7 and 3.x are installed by default).  I admit I might wuss out and only do one python2 and one python3 build -- for a UW-style build, boost.python needs to be rebuilt for each and I'm not feeling that generous toward RHEL5.  Blech!

Cheers,

Brian