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

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 9:51 AM Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

so how many supported distros have older python3 ?

>
> Ross
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