Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scripts: Support building with Python 3

[Peter Maydell]

On 31 August 2017 at 12:02, Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:55:18AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 31 August 2017 at 11:47, Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > If we can update to python 2.7 as our minimum, then supporting py2
>> > and py3 gets simpler, avoiding some of the nastier hacks, even
>> > without that though it isn't too hard.
>>
>> Unfortunately RHEL6 is what's holding us to retaining 2.6
>> support, and googling suggests that doesn't go EOL until 2020...
>
> Who is actually requiring that we support RHEL6 until EOL though ?

OK, if we don't need to retain RHEL6 support that would help
(we should in that case not bother pulling in that big lump
of argument parsing code that just went past in a patchset
purely for the benefit of 2.6 support). How are the other
LTS distros for Python versions?

thanks
-- PMM