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

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2019-12-04 at 10:52 -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> 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 ?

We have to install python3 separately on Centos7 already so we're ok
there. I think its only debian8 with python 3.4.

Cheers,

Richard