From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44850) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gBKuH-0007L6-Rq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2018 10:28:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gBKuH-00034E-4U for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2018 10:28:41 -0400 References: <20181013050227.17022-1-ehabkost@redhat.com> From: Eric Blake Message-ID: <30a1d2bf-011e-01b0-ccf1-a9f5bef6c5bd@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 09:28:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20181013050227.17022-1-ehabkost@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Require Python 3 for building QEMU List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Eduardo Habkost , Peter Maydell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Cleber Rosa Cc: Kevin Wolf , Fam Zheng , qemu-block@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster , Max Reitz , Stefan Hajnoczi , =?UTF-8?Q?Alex_Benn=c3=a9e?= , =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=c3=a9?= On 10/13/18 12:02 AM, Eduardo Habkost wrote: > Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost > --- 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