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

[Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@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
> 
> 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>

For reference, this is has info on the Python 2 version on many
popular software repositories:

https://repology.org/metapackage/python2/versions

I did this to check for repositories that don't have any 2.7 package:

  $ curl -s 'https://repology.org/api/v1/metapackage/python2' | \
    jq -r 'group_by(.repo) | .[] | "\(.[0].repo): \(map(.version))"' | \
    grep -v '"2\.7'
  centos_6: ["2.6.6"]
  maemo_fremantle: ["2.5.4","2.5.4","2.5.4","2.5.4"]
  rosa_server_6_9: ["2.6.6"]

-- 
Eduardo