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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] scripts: add argparse module for
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To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Ishani Chugh <chugh.ishani@research.iiit.ac.in>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

On 08/29/2017 07:01 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 12:42:44PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
>> 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

$ docker run --rm qemu:centos6 yum -q list python
Installed Packages
python.x86_64                     2.6.6-66.el6_8 
@CentOS/6.9

Good news, we have a docker image using Python2.6

Do you have some migration/guestperf test we can add to the testsuite?

Regards,

Phil.