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

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

On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 11:37:36AM -0300, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Cc'ing Eric
> 
> On 06/08/2018 11:30 AM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> > All of the supported build platforms documented in qemu-doc.texi
> > should already support Python 2.7.
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg05173.html
> 
>   On 08/25/2017 11:40 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>   > Our choices about our dependencies are generally driven by "what
>   > are the versions available on the oldest distros which we wish
>   > to support building QEMU on", which typically is whatever the
>   > long-term-support versions of Ubuntu, SUSE, Redhat, etc are.
>   >
>   > Has somebody checked what that means for our Python version
>   > requirements?
> 
>   At least this one:
> 
>   RHEL/CentOS 6: Python-2.6.6

RHEL6 is no longer a target we care about and is being explicitly
broken as a result of the min glib bump:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-06/msg02104.html

Regards,
Daniel
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