Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-next RFC 0/4] tools: Python 3 compatibility

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 01:49:18PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> On 3/5/19 4:42 PM, Wei Liu wrote:
> > This series makes tools build with Python 3.
> > 
> > Compile test only with 2.7 and 3.5 thus far, hence the RFC. This should be 
> > able
> > to give people some idea what sort of work is involved.
> > 
> > You will also need Andrew's "tools/xen-foreign: Update python scripts to be
> > Py3 compatible".
> 
> Tossing this out there: Given that python2 is (theoretically) EOL in
> less than a year, is it worth maintaining compatibility with python2, or
> would it be better to just go whole-hog into python3?

Some enterprise-y distros still ship ancient python AFAICT.

Given that the work involved seems to be manageable so far I would say
let's keep the compatibility for now.

Wei.

> 
>  -George

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