Re: [PATCH] python 3.5 compatibility

2020-12-01 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 04:59:23PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > On 01.12.20 07:33, Markus Armbruster wrote: > > > Which has oldstable status. Good for running the old and stable > > software packaged by it (such as QEMU 2.8), and old (and hopefully > > stable) software of

Re: [PATCH] python 3.5 compatibility

2020-12-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 01.12.20 07:33, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Which has oldstable status. Good for running the old and stable > software packaged by it (such as QEMU 2.8), and old (and hopefully > stable) software of similar vintage. It's still heavily used out in the field, and officially supported. But

Re: [PATCH] python 3.5 compatibility

2020-11-30 Thread Marc-André Lureau
Hi On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 10:29 PM Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult < l...@metux.net> wrote: > On 27.11.20 20:15, Peter Maydell wrote: > > Hi, > > > Could you say which "stable distros" you have in mind, and whether > > they are covered by our "supported build platforms" policy > >

Re: [PATCH] python 3.5 compatibility

2020-11-30 Thread Markus Armbruster
"Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" writes: > On 27.11.20 20:15, Peter Maydell wrote: > > Hi, > >> Could you say which "stable distros" you have in mind, and whether >> they are covered by our "supported build platforms" policy >> https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/build-platforms.html ? >

Re: [PATCH] python 3.5 compatibility

2020-11-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 30.11.20 10:44, Kevin Wolf wrote: Hi, > While type hints are valuable documentation, they are more than just > that. They help to find and prevent avoidable bugs in the code. We are > actively in the process of adding them to everything in the QAPI > generator to improve maintainability

Re: [PATCH] python 3.5 compatibility

2020-11-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 27.11.20 20:15, Peter Maydell wrote: Hi, > Could you say which "stable distros" you have in mind, and whether > they are covered by our "supported build platforms" policy > https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/build-platforms.html ? I'm running on Devuan Ascii. And packaging python-3.6

Re: [PATCH] python 3.5 compatibility

2020-11-30 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 27.11.2020 um 19:36 hat Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult geschrieben: > Several stable distros are still on python-3.5, so qemu cannot be > built there, w/o backporting the whole python stack. In order to > make qemu build there, make it running w/ python-3.5. The changes > are mostly removing

Re: [PATCH] python 3.5 compatibility

2020-11-27 Thread Peter Maydell
On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 at 19:12, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > Several stable distros are still on python-3.5, so qemu cannot be > built there, w/o backporting the whole python stack. In order to > make qemu build there, make it running w/ python-3.5. The changes > are mostly removing

[PATCH] python 3.5 compatibility

2020-11-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
Several stable distros are still on python-3.5, so qemu cannot be built there, w/o backporting the whole python stack. In order to make qemu build there, make it running w/ python-3.5. The changes are mostly removing the new type annotations (which, IMHO, just serve for documentation purpose) and