Re: [Qemu-devel] Requiring Python 2.7+ (was Re: [PATCH 0/3] Document intent for supported build platforms and bump min glib to 2.42)

[Peter Maydell]

On 14 May 2018 at 10:33, Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 07:48:23PM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>> On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 05:00:23PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>> [...]
>> > Based on that doc and https://repology.org/metapackage/glib/versions,
>> > I identified that we could feasibly set min glib to 2.42. Note that
>> > this would be dropping RHEL-6 as a build host (RHEL-6.0 came out in
>> > 2010 so that's reasonable to drop IMHO). It would still cover 2 major
>> > Debian versions and 2 most recent Ubuntu LTS (16.04, 18.04, but *not*
>> > 14.04). This min glib lets us remove almost all our compat code.
>>
>> If we're dropping RHEL-6, is there anything else blocking us from
>> bumping the minimum required Python versino to 2.7?
>>
>> From the wording on patch 1/3, it looks like we will drop support
>> for SLES-11 too?
>
> Yes, that is correct.
>
> py27 seems reasonable to me, assuming none of Peter's build machines
> are stuck on 2.6

OSX was the most likely candidate for that, and it's 2.7.

thanks
-- PMM