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

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 17.10.2019 um 00:48 hat John Snow geschrieben:
> 
> 
> 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 we were aware of this when we made the change to iotests. That
all tests of the current upstream QEMU version are run on Debian
oldstable (with the distro Python version) is, to say the least, not a
priority for me. They must not fail, but I'd say skipping is fine.

And actually, we should still have a reasonable coverage there with the
shell-based test cases.

Kevin