Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Deprecate Python 2 support

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 5/3/19 9:37 PM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> Python 2 will reach end of life in January 1 2020.  Declare it as
> deprecated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden>
> ---
>  configure            | 8 ++++++++
>  qemu-deprecated.texi | 8 ++++++++
>  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 5b183c2e39..50385061ed 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -6461,6 +6461,14 @@ if test "$supported_os" = "no"; then
>      echo "us upstream at address@hidden."
>  fi
>  
> +# Note that if the Python conditional here evaluates True we will exit
> +# with status 1 which is a shell 'false' value.
> +if ! $python -c 'import sys; sys.exit(sys.version_info < (3,0))'; then
> +  echo
> +  echo "WARNING: Python 2 support is deprecated" >&2
> +  echo "WARNING: Python 3 will be required for building future versions of 
> QEMU" >&2
> +fi
> +
>  config_host_mak="config-host.mak"
>  
>  echo "# Automatically generated by configure - do not modify" 
> >config-all-disas.mak
> diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi
> index 842e71b11d..2f2d9a3e95 100644
> --- a/qemu-deprecated.texi
> +++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
> @@ -206,3 +206,11 @@ Note that if you are exposing the export via /dev/nbd0, 
> it is easier
>  to just export the entire image and then mount only /dev/nbd0p1 than
>  it is to reinvoke @command{qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0} limited to just a
>  subset of the image.
> +
> +@section Build system
> +
> +@subsection Python 2 support (since 4.1.0)
> +
> +In the future, QEMU will require Python 3 to be available at
> +build time.  Support for Python 2 in scripts shipped with QEMU
> +is deprecated.
> 

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>