Comment # 27 on bug 1215337 from LTC BugProxy

------- Comment From Andreas.Krebbel@de.ibm.com 2024-06-18 01:59 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #25)
> The highest available Python version in openSUSE and Fedora is 3.13.
>
> That is the build log with excluding 3.10:
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/live_build_log/home:AdaLovelace:branches:
> openSUSE:Factory:zSystems/python-onnx/openSUSE_Factory_zSystems/s390x
>
> That is the build log including Python 3.10, Python 3.11, Python 3.12 and
> Python 3.13:
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/live_build_log/openSUSE:Factory:zSystems/
> python-onnx/standard/s390x

These logs do not indicate actual build failures to me. The builds are done at
this point. In both logs I see 16 *testsuite* failures. These are known to us
and we are working on it, but I do not see a reason to let the build fail
because of that. Once the patches mentioned earlier have been merged we will be
down to one fail in our tests. The last remaining fail seems to be triggered by
a build issue of the pillow package and not onnx. We will try to address this.

> So, do you mean I should exclude Python 3.10-3.12?

I don't see why these testsuite failures are related to the Python version. Are
you saying that it works with Python 3.9? That would surprise me.

> What is supported on your "supported" Enterprise distributions for AI on IBM
> Z?

This depends on what you mean by supported. Actually supported are the packages
used in products like the AI Toolkit or CP4D. Apart from that, we try to keep
things working best can do. In principle all the Python versions which are
working on other platforms should also work on IBM Z. If not, we will try have
a look asap.