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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: |
Tue, 16 Oct 2018 09:14:37 +0100 |
On 15 October 2018 at 19:01, Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 05:55:27PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Python 2.7 will die in less than 15 months[1]. I really want us
> to stop reviewing and maintaining Python 2 code in QEMU in less
> than 1 year. Preferably in less than 6 months.
Well, as with all our dependencies it depends on what the
default python is in the various LTS distro versions we
support. Once the last LTS distro with python 2 falls off
our this-is-what-we-support list we can drop 2 support,
possibly with a deprecate-and-warn-then-drop cycle.
thanks
-- PMM
- Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [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, 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, 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, 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