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X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::336 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecation policy and build dependencies X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" , Eduardo Habkost , QEMU Developers , Markus Armbruster , Cleber Rosa , =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu=2DDaud=C3=A9?= Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 at 19:21, John Snow wrote: > I get it, we don't want to require Python 3.8 because some dev wanted > assignment conditionals -- but we're talking about Python 2 here, which > suffers its EOL by the end of this calendar year. > > So do we think it's reasonable to drop support for Python2 for the > release that comes out after Python2's EOL, or do we insist on 2x3 > simultaneous support for years more? I don't have a strong opinion on Python in particular, but I think it would be nicer to avoid the "python is a special snowflake" effect. Would it really be so bad for it to just be "drop it when it falls off the last LTS distro" like the rest of our dependencies ? thanks -- PMM