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

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

On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 11:30:26AM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> All of the supported build platforms documented in qemu-doc.texi
> should already support Python 2.7.
> 
> Removing support for Python 2.6 will allow us to remove some
> compatibility modules we carry in the QEMU tree:
> 
> * scripts/argparse.py
> * scripts/ordereddict.py

Lets delete those in this patch then....

> 
> Python 2.6 is also not receiving bug fixes upstream and is not
> supported by pylint, which makes it harder to keep the code
> compatible with both Python 2 and Python 3.

Agreed, there's no compelling reason for 2.6 to stay around

> 
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
> ---
>  configure | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 14b11130a7..a8c4094c87 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -1651,8 +1651,8 @@ fi
>  
>  # Note that if the Python conditional here evaluates True we will exit
>  # with status 1 which is a shell 'false' value.
> -if ! $python -c 'import sys; sys.exit(sys.version_info < (2,6))'; then
> -  error_exit "Cannot use '$python', Python 2 >= 2.6 or Python 3 is required." \
> +if ! $python -c 'import sys; sys.exit(sys.version_info < (2,7))'; then
> +  error_exit "Cannot use '$python', Python 2 >= 2.7 or Python 3 is required." \
>        "Use --python=/path/to/python to specify a supported Python."
>  fi
>  
> -- 
> 2.18.0.rc1.1.g3f1ff2140
> 

Regards,
Daniel
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