Re: [XEN PATCH v2 1/5] automation: add python3's setuptools to containers

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/09/2023 5:51 pm, Javi Merino wrote:
> In preparation of dropping python distutils and moving to setuptools,
> add the python3 setuptools module to the containers that need it.
>
> The centos7 container was building using python2.  Change it to build
> python scripts using python3.
>
> Debian Stretch is no longer debian oldstable, so move to the archive
> repositories.
>
> Signed-off-by: Javi Merino <javi.merino@xxxxxxxxx>

We are not dropping distutils.  We're moving to support both distutils
and setuptools, because setuptools doesn't support the minimum version
of python that Xen supports.

Therefore, it's important to keep some of the containers on distutils
rather than switching all to setuptools.

CenOS can stay as is, as can Stretch and probably Bionic/Focal.

Any containers with Py3.10 or later definitely need to move, seeing as
distuils is formally deprecated there

It's sadly a little too early to make a Py3.12 container, which will
lack distutils, but we can come back to that in 4.19.

As Stefano points out, you should refresh at least some of the arm64
containers too.  RISC-V and PPC aren't set up for tools builds set, so
they're fine to leave.

~Andrew