On 31 August 2017 at 12:02, Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:55:18AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 31 August 2017 at 11:47, Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: >> > If we can update to python 2.7 as our minimum, then supporting py2 >> > and py3 gets simpler, avoiding some of the nastier hacks, even >> > without that though it isn't too hard. >> >> Unfortunately RHEL6 is what's holding us to retaining 2.6 >> support, and googling suggests that doesn't go EOL until 2020... > > Who is actually requiring that we support RHEL6 until EOL though ?
OK, if we don't need to retain RHEL6 support that would help (we should in that case not bother pulling in that big lump of argument parsing code that just went past in a patchset purely for the benefit of 2.6 support). How are the other LTS distros for Python versions? thanks -- PMM
