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)

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

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


Regards,
Daniel
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