[Openembedded-architecture] OE-Core python minimum version requirement

[Ross Burton]

On 04/12/2019 17:45, Richard Purdie wrote:
> I just enabled hashequiv's server in local mode by default in poky.
> 
> This causes an unintended side effect of requiring python 3.5 as the
> minimum version.
> 
> We had thought that the servers would be 'rare' and a 3.5 version
> requirement for that was fine. It turns out a local server is also
> extremely useful.
> 
> The code needed the python 3.5 async support and trying to write it any
> other way is a nightmare, we need that performance for the server.
> 
> At this point I think we just give in and require python 3.5 as a
> minimum. Any objections?

None here.

For reference, 3.5.0 was released in September 2015 and is in 
security-fixes only mode.

Ross