[Qemu-devel] Can we require a newer Python?

[Qemu-devel] Can we require a newer Python?

[Markus Armbruster]

We currently require Python 2.4, and have a bit of special code for
Python older than 2.6.  I could use a module that's available since 2.6.

Python 2.4 is from 2004.  We require GLib 2.22, which from 2009.  Makes
me suspect we don't actually support any system with such an old Python
anymore.

I vaguely remember we settled for GLib 2.22 due to some version of SLES.
If that's correct: what version of Python does it provide?

Re: [Qemu-devel] Can we require a newer Python?

[Peter Maydell]

On 4 September 2015 at 16:47, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
> We currently require Python 2.4, and have a bit of special code for
> Python older than 2.6.  I could use a module that's available since 2.6.
>
> Python 2.4 is from 2004.  We require GLib 2.22, which from 2009.  Makes
> me suspect we don't actually support any system with such an old Python
> anymore.
>
> I vaguely remember we settled for GLib 2.22 due to some version of SLES.
> If that's correct: what version of Python does it provide?

https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/11-SP3/#fate-313238
suggests SLES11sp3 is Python 2.6.6.

RHEL6 is also a Python 2.6.

2.6 will work on OSX back to 10.6 (and if you're on 10.5 you're
building so much other stuff for build-dependencies, including a
complete C compiler and linker, that having to scrape up a python
is probably the least of your worries...)

So I think we should be able to move our requirement up to Python 2.6
(but no further).

thanks
-- PMM

Re: [Qemu-devel] Can we require a newer Python?

[Andreas Schwab]

Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> writes:

> I vaguely remember we settled for GLib 2.22 due to some version of SLES.
> If that's correct: what version of Python does it provide?

SLES-11 has always provided python 2.6.

Andreas.

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