Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] CI: Stop building docs on centos8

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

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Il ven 10 feb 2023, 19:09 Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> ha
scritto:

> On Fri, 10 Feb 2023 at 17:55, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> wrote:
> > (The problem with just allowing sphinx to be a black box and
> > continuing to happily use the 3.6-based versions is that we are
> > using QAPIDoc extensions from our own codebase, which would lock
> > those to 3.6. A big motivator for Markus is dropping some 3.6
> > kludges we're carrying for qapi, so I looked to the opposite
> > solution - nudging Sphinx forward instead.)
>
> Mmm. Where on the pain spectrum does "allow python 3.8
> because CentosOS ships that, except that where our python
> code gets run via Sphinx that part of the codebase must
> retain 3.6 compatibility" sit ?
>

As far as the build system is concerned no changes are required, however
Python 3.7 support was requested by Markus for scripts/qapi/ for quite some
time. So it would not be painful to implement but it would remove most of
the benefits of dropping support for 3.6.

Paolo


> thanks
> -- PMM
>
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