On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 12:19:19PM -0400, Eduardo Habkost wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 04:00:14PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > > On 16/09/2020 14.30, Peter Maydell wrote: > > > On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 08:43, Markus Armbruster <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> We require Python 3.5. It will reach its "end of life" at the end of > > >> September 2020[*]. Any reason not to require 3.6 for 5.2? qemu-iotests > > >> already does for its Python parts. > > [...] > > > The default should be > > > "leave the version dependency where it is", not "bump the version > > > dependency as soon as we can". > > > > OTOH, if none of our supported build systems uses python 3.5 by default > > anymore, it also will not get tested anymore, so bugs might creep in, > > which will of course end up in a bad experience for the users, too, that > > still try to build with such an old version. So limiting the version to > > the level that we also test is IMHO very reasonable. > > > > Let's have a look at the (older) systems that we support and the python > > versions according to repology.org: > > > > - RHEL7 / CentOS 7 : 3.6.8 > > - Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) : >= 3.6.5 > > - openSUSE Leap 15.0 : >= 3.6.5 > > - OpenBSD Ports : >= 3.7.9 > > - FreeBSD Ports : >= 3.5.10 - but there is also 3.6 or newer > > - Homebrew : >= 3.7.9 > > > > ... so I think it should be fine to retire 3.5 nowadays. > > Thank you very much for the summary. I've added this info to > https://wiki.qemu.org/Supported_Build_Platforms > > Has anybody been able to find information om SLES Python > versions? I can't find this anywhere.
It is slightly tedious, but I was pointed at https://scc.suse.com/api/package_search/products where you find the product ID. eg SLES 15 is ID 1609 which you can plug into https://scc.suse.com/api/package_search/packages?product_id=1609&query=python and that somes some package names like "libpython3_6" so 3.6.5 looks like a match, This looks like it matches openSUSE Leap 15, which suggest we probably don't need to look at SLES directly. SLES 15 was released in July 2018, so with our 2 year overlap for the previous release, we can consider SLES 12sp2 unsupported from this release cycle. Regards, Daniel -- |: 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 :|
