On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 02:02:27AM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote: > Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <[email protected]> > --- > 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.
I think it is premature & unecessary to do this. We just got QEMU building with dual Python2/3 in 3.0 to give people leeway in the migration path to a fully v3 future. The code to support building 2/3 in parallel is not imposing a unreasonable maint burden. Dropping py2 suport would have negligible impact on the code, as there's no v3-only features we have used. IOW, I don't think there's a compelling reason to rush into forcing users onto v3. If we want to drop py2, we should give people a warning of such a planned change, especially since some of our targetted host OS[1] don't even include a py3 as standard without acquiring extra add-on repos. Devs in a typical corporate env will not have the freedom to install such extra repos on their machines. Regards, Daniel [1] https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Supported-build-platforms -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
