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

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 6:08 PM Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Thursday, 5 December 2019 6:45:03 AM NZDT 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?
>
> Seems reasonable to me. Theoretically this should allow us to complete the
> subprocess cleanups as well (time permitting of course).
>
> FYI I came across repology.org which tells you the version of various packages
> in each distro, though it's not ideal:
>
>   https://repology.org/project/python/versions
>
> That seems to be missing a few distros, here's another entry:
>
>   https://repology.org/project/python3-defaults/versions
>
> For Ubuntu you have to go back to 14.04 to have 3.4; any others other than
> CentOS 7 that are as old we don't really support.
>

yeah and we bandaid centos7 anyway. So probably all is fine.

> There is also pkgs.org that I could have sworn used to support comparing
> package versions across distros but it doesn't seem to want to do it anymore.
> Distrowatch also tracks this per distro but only allows side-by-side
> comparisons across versions within a distro or only between two distros. I
> think in this instance we have the information we need though.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
>
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>
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel System Software Products
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