Re: Python 3.5 EOL; when can require 3.6?

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 09:53:21AM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 9/16/20 9:43 AM, 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.
> > 
> > 
> > [*] https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3510/
> 
> Not answering your question, but it would help to start a table
> of "oldest package released" versions, with our supported distributions
> as columns and package names as row.
> 
> This way when new distributions are released (and oldest dropped from
> our side) we can add/remove a column and see the oldest version we aim
> to support.

I had built this table when we were discussing requiring
Python >= 3.5:
https://wiki.qemu.org/Supported_Build_Platforms

It's outdated, but it shouldn't be difficult to bring it up to
date based on the info Thomas and others posted in this thread.

-- 
Eduardo