Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] scripts: add argparse module for Python 2.6 compatibility

[Eric Blake]

On 08/25/2017 11:40 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Our choices about our dependencies are generally driven by "what
> are the versions available on the oldest distros which we wish
> to support building QEMU on", which typically is whatever the
> long-term-support versions of Ubuntu, SUSE, Redhat, etc are.
> 
> Has somebody checked what that means for our Python version
> requirements?

At least this one:

RHEL/CentOS 6: Python-2.6.6

> (It would certainly be nicer if we could get away
> with bumping the version-req rather than including a big lump
> of code with yet-another-software-license, but maybe we can't.)

Based on the above, no sooner than when Red Hat is done supporting RHEL
6 (well, upstream can always decide to bump the minimum requirements it
and make Red Hat do the downstream back-compat work in isolation, but
there's enough Red Hat contributors that it shouldn't surprise anyone
that back-compat work patches will still be posted upstream...)

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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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