Cc'ing Eric On 06/08/2018 11:30 AM, Eduardo Habkost wrote: > All of the supported build platforms documented in qemu-doc.texi > should already support Python 2.7.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg05173.html On 08/25/2017 11:40 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: > Our choices about our dependencies are generally driven by "what > are the versions available on the oldest distros which we wish > to support building QEMU on", which typically is whatever the > long-term-support versions of Ubuntu, SUSE, Redhat, etc are. > > Has somebody checked what that means for our Python version > requirements? At least this one: RHEL/CentOS 6: Python-2.6.6 > > Removing support for Python 2.6 will allow us to remove some > compatibility modules we carry in the QEMU tree: > > * scripts/argparse.py > * scripts/ordereddict.py > > Python 2.6 is also not receiving bug fixes upstream and is not > supported by pylint, which makes it harder to keep the code > compatible with both Python 2 and Python 3. > > Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> > --- > configure | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/configure b/configure > index 14b11130a7..a8c4094c87 100755 > --- a/configure > +++ b/configure > @@ -1651,8 +1651,8 @@ fi > > # Note that if the Python conditional here evaluates True we will exit > # with status 1 which is a shell 'false' value. > -if ! $python -c 'import sys; sys.exit(sys.version_info < (2,6))'; then > - error_exit "Cannot use '$python', Python 2 >= 2.6 or Python 3 is > required." \ > +if ! $python -c 'import sys; sys.exit(sys.version_info < (2,7))'; then > + error_exit "Cannot use '$python', Python 2 >= 2.7 or Python 3 is > required." \ > "Use --python=/path/to/python to specify a supported Python." > fi > >