Re: [PATCH] configure: Require Python >= 3.5

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 06:48:34PM -0400, John Snow wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/16/19 6:42 PM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> > Python 3.5 is the oldest Python version available on our
> > supported build platforms, and Python 2 end of life will be 3
> > weeks after the planned release date of QEMU 4.2.0.  Drop Python
> > 2 support from configure completely, and require Python 3.5 or
> > newer.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden>
> 
> Seems like a good time and place to mention this. Kevin, you require
> 3.6+ for iotests, which are -- at present -- invoked as part of "make
> check".
> 
> Do we care? Basically, this just means that iotests won't run for
> systems that don't have 3.6+, which would be platforms like Debian 9 --
> which is why ehabkost is choosing 3.5 here.

Depends what the reason for pickin 3.6 was ?  Is it really compelling
for iotests to require 3.6, or is it easy to support 3.5.  I think in
general it is desirable to have a consistent story across the codebase
for min versions


Regards,
Daniel
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