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From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Requiring Python 2.7+ (was Re: [PATCH 0/3] Document
 intent for supported build platforms and bump min glib to 2.42)
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To: Daniel =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=2E_Berrang=E9?= <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 05:00:23PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrang=E9 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?

--=20
Eduardo