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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 09:14:37 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Require Python 3 for building QEMU
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On 15 October 2018 at 19:01, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 05:55:27PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> I also suspect "a few months" is an underestimate. My guess
>> would be we're going to want to keep Python 2 support for
>> at least the next year, maybe two.
>
> Python 2.7 will die in less than 15 months[1].  I really want us
> to stop reviewing and maintaining Python 2 code in QEMU in less
> than 1 year.  Preferably in less than 6 months.

Well, as with all our dependencies it depends on what the
default python is in the various LTS distro versions we
support. Once the last LTS distro with python 2 falls off
our this-is-what-we-support list we can drop 2 support,
possibly with a deprecate-and-warn-then-drop cycle.

thanks
-- PMM