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Re: [PATCH] configure: Require Python >= 3.5
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Thomas Huth |
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Re: [PATCH] configure: Require Python >= 3.5 |
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Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:56:37 +0200 |
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On 17/10/2019 00.48, 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.
I think it's ok to simply skip the iotests in case we run on a Python
3.5 system.
Thomas
Re: [PATCH] configure: Require Python >= 3.5, John Snow, 2019/10/18