On 05/26/2015 10:14 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:31:57AM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> What if we apply these to the ovn branch, and then plan to merge ovn
> into master only after OVS 2.4 is released?

I suppose that works.  I'd hate for this to be the only thing blocking
merging ovn to master at some point, though.

-- 
Russell Bryant
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