Il ven 10 feb 2023, 19:09 Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> ha scritto:
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2023 at 17:55, John Snow <js...@redhat.com> wrote: > > (The problem with just allowing sphinx to be a black box and > > continuing to happily use the 3.6-based versions is that we are > > using QAPIDoc extensions from our own codebase, which would lock > > those to 3.6. A big motivator for Markus is dropping some 3.6 > > kludges we're carrying for qapi, so I looked to the opposite > > solution - nudging Sphinx forward instead.) > > Mmm. Where on the pain spectrum does "allow python 3.8 > because CentosOS ships that, except that where our python > code gets run via Sphinx that part of the codebase must > retain 3.6 compatibility" sit ? > As far as the build system is concerned no changes are required, however Python 3.7 support was requested by Markus for scripts/qapi/ for quite some time. So it would not be painful to implement but it would remove most of the benefits of dropping support for 3.6. Paolo > thanks > -- PMM > >
