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Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Require Python 3 for building QEMU
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Peter Maydell |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Require Python 3 for building QEMU |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Oct 2018 17:55:27 +0100 |
On 15 October 2018 at 17:33, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
> Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Am 15.10.2018 um 12:02 hat Peter Maydell geschrieben:
>> It's easier to port stuff to Python 3 though than making them work with
>> both. I think Eduardo's RFC is in part motivated by a patch from
>> Philippe that converted something in iotests to work with Python 3,
>> passed review and then turned out to break Python 2.
>
> Seconded. This is not about the cost of maintaining existing
> compatibility gunk, it's about the extra effort to first get the
> remainder to work with 2 and 3, only to throw away 2 a few months later.
>
> I propose we permit ourselves to port stuff that isn't essential to
> building QEMU straight to 3 instead. This includes iotests.
No particular objection, as long as nothing run via 'make'
or 'make check' needs Python 3.
I also suspect "a few months" is an underestimate. My guess
would be we're going to want to keep Python 2 support for
at least the next year, maybe two.
thanks
-- PMM
- Re: [Qemu-block] [RFC] Require Python 3 for building QEMU, (continued)
Re: [Qemu-block] [RFC] Require Python 3 for building QEMU, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2018/10/15
- Re: [Qemu-block] [RFC] Require Python 3 for building QEMU, Peter Maydell, 2018/10/15
- Re: [Qemu-block] [RFC] Require Python 3 for building QEMU, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2018/10/15
- Re: [Qemu-block] [RFC] Require Python 3 for building QEMU, Kevin Wolf, 2018/10/15
- Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Require Python 3 for building QEMU, Markus Armbruster, 2018/10/15
- Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Require Python 3 for building QEMU,
Peter Maydell <=
- Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Require Python 3 for building QEMU, Eduardo Habkost, 2018/10/15
- Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Require Python 3 for building QEMU, Markus Armbruster, 2018/10/15
- Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Require Python 3 for building QEMU, Peter Maydell, 2018/10/16
Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Require Python 3 for building QEMU, Christian Borntraeger, 2018/10/15
Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Require Python 3 for building QEMU, Eduardo Habkost, 2018/10/15
Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Require Python 3 for building QEMU, Christian Borntraeger, 2018/10/15