Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 13/14] travis: improve python version test coverage

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 09:17:30PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Currently travis declares ancient python 2.4 is desired. Update that to
> > 2.6 which is the oldest version any targetted distros still needs. If we
> > just list a python 3 version at the top level this will double the
> > number of travis jobs we run which is unreasonable.
> >
> > So arbitrarily pick the clang test matrix entries to build with python
> > 3.0 and 3.6, to extend coverage of python versions, without increasing
> > job count or build time.
> 
> I'm sorry I didn't get to this when you posted it. However I'd like to
> know what the minimum build configuration we can get which will still
> ensure that the python is exercised? Would a
> TARGET_LIST="x86-64-softmmu" be good enough?

Most important stuff to exercise is the QAPI code generator and the
trace tool backends, as those the main python pieces users will hit
during build. So yes, it is sufficient to just have 1 target arch


Regards,
Daniel
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