[GHC] #12554: Testsuite exhibits large amount of framework failures

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#12554: Testsuite exhibits large amount of framework failures
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        Reporter:  Phyx-             |                Owner:
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  patch
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  Test Suite        |              Version:  8.0.1
      Resolution:                    |             Keywords:
Operating System:  Windows           |         Architecture:
 Type of failure:  Incorrect result  |  Unknown/Multiple
  at runtime                         |            Test Case:
      Blocked By:                    |             Blocking:
 Related Tickets:                    |  Differential Rev(s):  Phab:D2684
       Wiki Page:                    |
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Comment (by bgamari):

 Phyx has put in a herculean effort to try to fix up the testsuite driver
 in Phab:D2684. Unfortunately, while the result works on Harbormaster and
 RyanGlScott's machine, it still fails for me. However, it turns out that
 only mingw-w64 Python 2.7 is affected.

 Given that maintaining Python 2 support is already becoming rather
 tiresome and that Python 3 seems to work just fine, I say let's just
 deprecate Python 2 support in the testsuite driver. I've proposed this as
 Phab:D2766.

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