Python 2 will reach end of life in January 1 2020. Declare it as deprecated.
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> --- configure | 8 ++++++++ qemu-deprecated.texi | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/configure b/configure index 5b183c2e39..50385061ed 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -6461,6 +6461,14 @@ if test "$supported_os" = "no"; then echo "us upstream at qemu-devel@nongnu.org." 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 < (3,0))'; then + echo + echo "WARNING: Python 2 support is deprecated" >&2 + echo "WARNING: Python 3 will be required for building future versions of QEMU" >&2 +fi + config_host_mak="config-host.mak" echo "# Automatically generated by configure - do not modify" >config-all-disas.mak diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi index 842e71b11d..2f2d9a3e95 100644 --- a/qemu-deprecated.texi +++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi @@ -206,3 +206,11 @@ Note that if you are exposing the export via /dev/nbd0, it is easier to just export the entire image and then mount only /dev/nbd0p1 than it is to reinvoke @command{qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0} limited to just a subset of the image. + +@section Build system + +@subsection Python 2 support (since 4.1.0) + +In the future, QEMU will require Python 3 to be available at +build time. Support for Python 2 in scripts shipped with QEMU +is deprecated. -- 2.18.0.rc1.1.g3f1ff2140