From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A0D6C4CEC9 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2019 21:49:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [209.51.188.17]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0978C2171F for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2019 21:49:18 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 0978C2171F Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Received: from localhost ([::1]:52856 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iALLa-0008Co-55 for qemu-devel@archiver.kernel.org; Tue, 17 Sep 2019 17:49:18 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37303) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iALKd-0007iX-OZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Sep 2019 17:48:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iALKc-0000nK-Jj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Sep 2019 17:48:19 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:47332) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iALKc-0000mu-AX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 17 Sep 2019 17:48:18 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.13]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BF9BF8980E1; Tue, 17 Sep 2019 21:48:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (ovpn-116-86.gru2.redhat.com [10.97.116.86]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA4A460606; Tue, 17 Sep 2019 21:48:13 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 18:48:08 -0300 From: Eduardo Habkost To: Kevin Wolf Message-ID: <20190917214808.GH4082@habkost.net> References: <20190607211544.7964-1-ehabkost@redhat.com> <20190611160329.GH5927@habkost.net> <20190611171257.GI5927@habkost.net> <20190917135726.GD4824@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190917135726.GD4824@localhost.localdomain> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.13 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.67]); Tue, 17 Sep 2019 21:48:16 +0000 (UTC) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/8] Python queue, 2019-06-07 X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Peter Maydell , mreitz@redhat.com, jsnow@redhat.com, QEMU Developers , Cleber Rosa Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 03:57:26PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote: > Am 11.06.2019 um 19:12 hat Eduardo Habkost geschrieben: > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 05:07:55PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 17:03, Eduardo Habkost wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 04:50:34PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 at 13:58, Peter Maydell wrote: > > > > > > Hi. This fails to build on one of my buildtest machines: > > > > > > > > > > > > ERROR: Cannot use 'python3', Python 2 >= 2.7 or Python 3 >= 3.5 is required. > > > > > > Use --python=/path/to/python to specify a supported Python. > > > > > > > > > > > > The machine has python 2.7.6 and 3.4.3. (It's an Ubuntu trusty > > > > > > box; it's one of the gcc compile farm machines so upgrades to its > > > > > > OS are not really under my control.) > > > > > > > > > > Rereading this, I realise that either the check or the error > > > > > message is wrong here. The machine has 2.7.6, which satisfies > > > > > "python 2 >= 2.7", so we should be OK to build. The bug > > > > > seems to be that we say "prefer python3 over plain python > > > > > on python2" early, but don't revisit that decision if the > > > > > python3 we found isn't actually good enough for us. > > > > > > > > Right. The error message is technically correct, but misleading. > > > > python3 is too old, but python2 would work. > > > > > > > > We can make configure not use python3 by default if it's too old, > > > > and fall back to python2 in this case. > > > > > > Sounds good. Since I have now managed to get my alternate > > > aarch64 box set up, how about I apply this pullreq and you > > > send a followup patch which does the fallback to python/python2 ? > > > > I will remove the python2/python3 patches and send a new pull > > request. > > What is the plan forward with this? Are the patches dropped for good? > > I think the plan was to drop Python 2 after QEMU 4.2, and then it > becomes really relevant what our minimum Python 3 version is. We've just > had another Python version discussion in the context of iotests (John > suggested using function annotations, but these are >= 3.5 only). > > Also, the fallback to Python 2 obviously makes no sense any more then, > so maybe it's not that important to add for a single QEMU release? > > As Peter seems to have indicated above that he found a replacement for > the test machine with an OS that isn't out of support, can we just > revive this patch as it is? My plan is to remove Python 2 support in QEMU 4.2 (making the fallback to Python 2 a non-issue), and require Python >= 3.5. Now, even if my plan is rejected and we keep supporting Python 2 when building QEMU 4.2, my suggestion for the iotest maintainers is to make it require Python 3.5+ immediately, just like we do for tests/acceptance. I don't see why we should keep wasting our energy supporting ancient Python versions in a test suite that is not a requirement for building QEMU. -- Eduardo