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

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 08/29/2017 07:01 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 12:42:44PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> > 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

$ docker run --rm qemu:centos6 yum -q list python
Installed Packages
python.x86_64                     2.6.6-66.el6_8 
@CentOS/6.9

Good news, we have a docker image using Python2.6

Do you have some migration/guestperf test we can add to the testsuite?

Regards,

Phil.