On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 7:31 PM John Snow <js...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Howdy, this series increases our minimum python version to 3.7. > > CI: https://gitlab.com/jsnow/qemu/-/pipelines/771780626 > (All green!) > GL: https://gitlab.com/jsnow/qemu/-/commits/python-require-37 > > Patches 1 and 2 are loose pre-requisites; I'd like to merge them into > qemu.git within the week whether or not we take this series. I'd > appreciate an "ACK" on those specifically. They're just riding along > here because they make this series a bit nicer. > > Patches 3-6 are the hard pre-requisites, and 7 does the dirty work. > > The motivation for this series is that Python 3.6 was EOL at the end of > 2021; upstream tools are beginning to drop support for it, including > setuptools, pylint, mypy, etc. As time goes by, it becomes more > difficult to support and test against the full range of Python versions > that QEMU supports. The closer we get to Python 3.12, the harder it will > be to cover that full spread of versions. > > The qemu.qmp library and the avocado testing framework both have > motivations for dropping 3.6 support, but are committed to not doing so > until QEMU drops support. > > So, I'd like to talk about doing it. > > V2: > - Added R-Bs to patch 1 > - Updated commit message for patch 7 with explicit version info > - Added DO-NOT-MERGE to patch 5's title > - Tested tests/vm/freebsd, netbsd, and openbsd in addition to full CI > > RFC: > - Patch 5 is just a proof-of-concept; we need to update lcitool instead. > - Cleber, I need to update your ansible scripts. How do I test them? > > Thanks! > --js > > John Snow (7): > python: support pylint 2.16 > python: drop pipenv
Hi, I've staged these first two patches to my Python branch. (Kevin, Hanna; is that acceptable? I touch some iotests to do some trivial linting whack-a-mole.) --js > configure: Look for auxiliary Python installations > configure: Add nice hint to Python failure message > DO-NOT-MERGE: testing: Add Python >= 3.7 to Centos, OpenSuSE > CI: Stop building docs on centos8 > Python: Drop support for Python 3.6 > > docs/conf.py | 4 +- > python/README.rst | 3 - > configure | 40 +- > .gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml | 2 +- > .gitlab-ci.d/static_checks.yml | 4 +- > python/.gitignore | 4 +- > python/Makefile | 57 ++- > python/Pipfile | 13 - > python/Pipfile.lock | 347 ------------------ > python/qemu/qmp/protocol.py | 2 +- > python/qemu/qmp/qmp_client.py | 2 +- > python/qemu/utils/qemu_ga_client.py | 6 +- > python/setup.cfg | 11 +- > python/tests/minreqs.txt | 45 +++ > scripts/qapi/mypy.ini | 2 +- > tests/docker/dockerfiles/centos8.docker | 1 + > tests/docker/dockerfiles/opensuse-leap.docker | 1 + > tests/docker/dockerfiles/python.docker | 1 - > tests/qemu-iotests/iotests.py | 4 +- > .../tests/migrate-bitmaps-postcopy-test | 2 +- > 20 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 416 deletions(-) > delete mode 100644 python/Pipfile > delete mode 100644 python/Pipfile.lock > create mode 100644 python/tests/minreqs.txt > > -- > 2.39.0 > >