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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
	Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Cc: "Kevin Wolf" <kwolf@redhat.com>, "Fam Zheng" <famz@redhat.com>,
	qemu-block@nongnu.org, "Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
	"Max Reitz" <mreitz@redhat.com>,
	"Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Require Python 3 for building QEMU
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 09:28:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <30a1d2bf-011e-01b0-ccf1-a9f5bef6c5bd@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181013050227.17022-1-ehabkost@redhat.com>

On 10/13/18 12:02 AM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
> ---

Commit message is sparse; can you do something like commit e7b3af81 
where you call out the availability of python 3 on all the platforms 
that are currently supported per our platforms doc?

> I'd like to do this in QEMU 3.1.  I think it's time to drop
> support for old systems that have only Python 2.
> 
> We still have a few scripts that are not required for building
> QEMU that still work only with Python 2 (iotests being the most
> relevant set).  Requiring Python 3 for building QEMU won't
> prevent people from using those scripts with Python 2 until they
> are finally ported.

How much effort is it to complete the porting?

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-13 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-13  5:02 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Require Python 3 for building QEMU Eduardo Habkost
2018-10-13 14:28 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2018-10-13 18:20 ` Max Reitz
2018-10-13 20:36   ` Eduardo Habkost
2018-10-14 11:39     ` Max Reitz
2018-10-15  5:55       ` Markus Armbruster
2018-10-15 11:01         ` Max Reitz
2018-10-15 11:03           ` Max Reitz
2018-10-15  9:32 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-10-15 10:02   ` Peter Maydell
2018-10-15 10:08     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-10-15 10:13     ` Kevin Wolf
2018-10-15 16:33       ` Markus Armbruster
2018-10-15 16:55         ` Peter Maydell
2018-10-15 18:01           ` Eduardo Habkost
2018-10-16  3:59             ` Markus Armbruster
2018-10-16  8:14             ` Peter Maydell
2018-10-15 18:19         ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-10-15 18:33           ` Eduardo Habkost
2018-10-15 18:49             ` Christian Borntraeger

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