Re: Python 3.5 EOL; when can require 3.6?

[Thomas Huth]

On 16/09/2020 11.54, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 11:50:06AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> On 16/09/2020 10.33, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 09:54:32AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>>> On 16/09/2020 09.43, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>>>> We require Python 3.5.  It will reach its "end of life" at the end of
>>>>> September 2020[*].  Any reason not to require 3.6 for 5.2?  qemu-iotests
>>>>> already does for its Python parts.
>>>>
>>>> I think the only reason for requiring Python 3.5 is that we still use
>>>> Ubuntu Xenial in Travis. We don't support Xenial according to our
>>>> support policy anymore, but we did not update to Bionic there since it
>>>> has that broken version of libssh.
>>>>
>>>> Fortunately, since a couple of weeks, Travis now supports Focal, too, so
>>>> once we switched our .travis.yml to use Focal, I think we could start
>>>> requiring Python 3.6.
>>>
>>> Note we really should not be constrained by what Travis provides as
>>> images. Travis images provide docker, so we can spawn our Travis
>>> jobs inside containers to get arbitrary linux distros. We did this
>>> for libvirt for a while until we switched to GitLab CI. So we
>>> definitely don't need to care about Xenial from a Travis POV no
>>> matter what.
>>
>> I hope we could finally exploit the possibility to use KVM on Travis ...
>> that won't be possible anymore once we use containers there.
> 
> Do they forbid passing the /dev/kvm device node into the docker
> container ? I would have though that would be allowed, since using
> KVM inside docker is no worse than using it outside docker in the
> Travis env.

Maybe ... I'm just a complete ignorant in this area ;-)

 Thomas