On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 3:08 AM Paul Eggleton <paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > On Thursday, 5 December 2019 6:45:03 AM NZDT Richard Purdie wrote: > > I just enabled hashequiv's server in local mode by default in poky. > > > > This causes an unintended side effect of requiring python 3.5 as the > > minimum version. > > > > We had thought that the servers would be 'rare' and a 3.5 version > > requirement for that was fine. It turns out a local server is also > > extremely useful. > > > > The code needed the python 3.5 async support and trying to write it any > > other way is a nightmare, we need that performance for the server. > > > > At this point I think we just give in and require python 3.5 as a > > minimum. Any objections? > > Seems reasonable to me. Theoretically this should allow us to complete the > subprocess cleanups as well (time permitting of course). > > FYI I came across repology.org which tells you the version of various packages > in each distro, though it's not ideal: > > https://repology.org/project/python/versions
Nice! How do we get OE plugged into that? Have you looked at that? > > That seems to be missing a few distros, here's another entry: > > https://repology.org/project/python3-defaults/versions > > For Ubuntu you have to go back to 14.04 to have 3.4; any others other than > CentOS 7 that are as old we don't really support. > > There is also pkgs.org that I could have sworn used to support comparing > package versions across distros but it doesn't seem to want to do it anymore. > Distrowatch also tracks this per distro but only allows side-by-side > comparisons across versions within a distro or only between two distros. I > think in this instance we have the information we need though. > > Cheers, > Paul > > > -- > > Paul Eggleton > Intel System Software Products > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-architecture mailing list > openembedded-architect...@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-architecture -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
