Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Require Python 2.7 or newer

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 06/08/2018 11:40 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 11:37:36AM -0300, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> Cc'ing Eric
>>
>> On 06/08/2018 11:30 AM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>>> All of the supported build platforms documented in qemu-doc.texi
>>> should already support Python 2.7.
>>
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg05173.html
>>
>>   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
> 
> RHEL6 is no longer a target we care about and is being explicitly
> broken as a result of the min glib bump:
> 
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-06/msg02104.html

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