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Re: Python 3.5 EOL; when can require 3.6?
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Daniel P . Berrangé |
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Re: Python 3.5 EOL; when can require 3.6? |
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Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:57:37 +0100 |
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On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 02:53:55PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
>
> Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > On 16/09/2020 09.53, 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.
> >
> > That's quite a bit of extra work - I think it's enough to look up the
> > versions on repology instead, e.g.:
> >
> > https://repology.org/project/python/versions
>
> Hmm are there any magic runes to limit the list to only the distros we
> care about?
No, thats the hard bit. Basically have to search through the list looking
for the two most recent versions of RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, etc
Regards,
Daniel
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Re: Python 3.5 EOL; when can require 3.6?, Thomas Huth, 2020/09/16
Re: Python 3.5 EOL; when can require 3.6?, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2020/09/16
Re: Python 3.5 EOL; when can require 3.6?, Peter Maydell, 2020/09/16