On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 9:37 AM Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:

> Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > On 16/09/2020 16.00, Thomas Huth wrote:
> >> On 16/09/2020 14.30, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 08:43, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >>>> We require Python 3.5.  It will reach its "end of life" at the end of
> >>>> September 2020[*].  Any reason not to require 3.6 for 5.2?
> qemu-iotests
> >>>> already does for its Python parts.
> >> [...]
> >>> The default should be
> >>> "leave the version dependency where it is", not "bump the version
> >>> dependency as soon as we can".
> >>
> >> OTOH, if none of our supported build systems uses python 3.5 by default
> >> anymore, it also will not get tested anymore, so bugs might creep in,
> >> which will of course end up in a bad experience for the users, too, that
> >> still try to build with such an old version. So limiting the version to
> >> the level that we also test is IMHO very reasonable.
> >>
> >> Let's have a look at the (older) systems that we support and the python
> >> versions according to repology.org:
> >> - FreeBSD Ports : >= 3.5.10 - but there is also 3.6 or newer
>

FreeBSD Ports can specify, on a per-port basis, which version of Python to
use:

USES= python:3.6+

So we're good there for all supported FreeBSD versions (11.x, 12.x and
-current).

Warner