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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: David Michael <fedora.dm0@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scripts: Support building with Python 3
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 18:09:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170830170941.GB24565@stefanha-x1.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8x1yox3.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org>

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 04:29:44PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> What is our Python 2 -> 3 migration strategy?
> 
> Don't support Python 3 until a flag day, then flip and don't support
> Python 2?

Add support for Python 3 so that both Python 2.6+ and Python 3 are
supported.

When Python 2 is EOL it will need to be dropped and the code becomes
Python 3-only.

> Keep the source in Python 2 and support 3 via conversion with 2to3?
> 
> Port the source to Python 3 and support 2 via conversion with 3to2?
> 
> Port to Python 3, but keep it working with Python 2 with help of the six
> module?
> 
> Support both with ad hoc hackery (like this patch does)?

Yes, please see for details:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg01758.html

Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-30 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-20  5:58 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scripts: Support building with Python 3 David Michael
2017-08-21 14:29 ` Markus Armbruster
2017-08-30 17:09   ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2017-08-31  6:35     ` Markus Armbruster
2017-08-31 10:27       ` Peter Maydell
2017-08-31 10:47         ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-08-31 10:55           ` Peter Maydell
2017-08-31 11:02             ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-08-31 12:44               ` Markus Armbruster
2017-08-31 13:22                 ` Kashyap Chamarthy
2017-08-31 12:50               ` Peter Maydell
2017-08-31 12:58         ` Markus Armbruster
2017-08-31 13:14           ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-08-31 13:19             ` Peter Maydell
2017-08-31 13:25               ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-08-31 13:32                 ` Peter Maydell
2017-09-01 19:26             ` Max Reitz
2017-08-31 13:29           ` Peter Maydell
2017-08-30 17:15 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-09-18 15:36 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-10-02  6:17   ` Markus Armbruster

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