Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v2 00/24] scripts: convert most perl scripts to python

On Fri, 2019-09-13 at 09:59 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 10:56:45AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > On Wed, 2019-09-11 at 17:23 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > > This aligns with fact that the likely future build system > > > we'll use (meson) is written in python, and that python > > > is much more commonly used/understood by developers these > > > days than perl. > > > > I believe Meson is itself implemented in Python 3, so platform > > availability will have to be taken into consideration. > > Yes, Meson needs py 3.4 I believe If I understand the SLES / OpenSUSE situation correctly, then SLES 12.3 should be comparable to OpenSUSE 42.3, which according to Repology has Python 3.4.6. All other platforms have newer Python 3 versions, so we should be good. > > My hope is that we can finally ditch Python 2 for good. The > > https://pythonclock.org/ keeps ticking... > > My intention was to submit patches to purge Py2 support in > December, so that we have it gone for the Jan 15 2020 release > which matches the pythonclock timeout nicely. The reason I brought it up is because I don't think the situation is going to change significantly in the next three months, so it would probably make sense for these replacement Python scripts to be Python 3 only from day one. On the other hand, you've already gone through the trouble of making them Python 2.7 compatible...