Re: [PATCH v1 00/11] Convert avocado tests to normal Python unittests

[Thomas Huth]

On 16/07/2024 19.57, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il mar 16 lug 2024, 13:26 Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com 
> <mailto:thuth@redhat.com>> ha scritto:
>
>     The Avocado v88 that we use in QEMU is already on a life support
>     system: It is not supported by upstream anymore, and with the latest
>     versions of Python, it won't work anymore since it depends on the
>     "imp" module that has been removed in Python 3.12.
>
>     There have been several attempts to update the test suite in QEMU
>     to a newer version of Avocado, but so far no attempt has successfully
>     been merged yet.
>
>
> I think we should take another look at that. Avocado 92 should work, though 
> I am not sure if it's also depending on "imp"

FWIW, the "imp" problem had been fixed here:


https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/commit/dfc340f1a0b0aeddbf6699e49e94b75ed080137c

That had just been released with Avocado version 99, so updating to 92 does 
not really help.

 Thomas