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

[Andrea Bolognani]

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...

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization