On 05/21/2015 10:23 PM, Andy Hill wrote: >> As a consequence, this requires dropping support for old versions of >> XenServer. I don't expect that to be much of a problem. > > Unfortunately, the most recent release of XenServer (6.5) still ships > with Python 2.4. > >> +Open vSwitch requires a version of XenServer (XCP) that includes a >> +modern version of Python (2.7 or later). This excludes older releases >> +based on Centos, which have Python 2.4. > > XCP seems looks EOL on after XenServer was open sourced.[1] > > Can we defer this until a later Open vSwitch release? Maybe the next LTS? > > [1] > http://www.xenproject.org/component/content/article/100-misc/148-xcp-and-xenserver-faq.html > - See "I am a user of XCP: how am I impacted?"
This is going to get more and more painful. We may just have to fork this library for OpenStack for now so we can carry a patch set to support Python 3. It's a last resort, but we can't really wait if we want to use this in OpenStack. -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
