Roadmap for python3 and php8?

[cweekly]

Hi @pmeenan and friends,
Has this wptserver-install project been abandoned, following the Catchpoint acquisition?

Issue #4 (supporting python3) hasn't been touched since it was raised almost 2 years ago.
It'd be really great to provide a migration path for upgrading to php8, given php7.4 goes EOL/Out of Support later this year (2022-11-28).

I know I'm not alone in the web perf engineering community, seeking a maintainable WPT private instance.
See e.g. https://www.robinosborne.co.uk/2021/11/24/webpagetest-private-instance-2021-edition/

Thanks in advance for any response.
(And thanks for creating and maintaining WPT for so many years, Pat!)

Slainte,
Chris

[pmeenan]

The agents have supported python3 for a few years now (and recent code may actually depend on it). The agent setup script should default to python 3.

The server doesn't really use or depend on python. It used to allow for doing some of the agent calculations on the server (and may still support it) but all of that really should just be done on the agents. Could just be a minor tweak if the current server script installs it.

As for php 8, there's a good chance it will "just work" because we're not doing anything fancy and not really relying on any deprecated capabilities but it just needs to be tested (and the installer script would need to be updated).

The install scripts just haven't had any activity since there haven't been any changes needed but nothing's abandoned here.

[cweekly]

Awesome! Thanks so much, Pat! :)