On 16/09/2020 10.33, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 09:54:32AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: >> On 16/09/2020 09.43, Markus Armbruster wrote: >>> We require Python 3.5. It will reach its "end of life" at the end of >>> September 2020[*]. Any reason not to require 3.6 for 5.2? qemu-iotests >>> already does for its Python parts. >> >> I think the only reason for requiring Python 3.5 is that we still use >> Ubuntu Xenial in Travis. We don't support Xenial according to our >> support policy anymore, but we did not update to Bionic there since it >> has that broken version of libssh. >> >> Fortunately, since a couple of weeks, Travis now supports Focal, too, so >> once we switched our .travis.yml to use Focal, I think we could start >> requiring Python 3.6. > > Note we really should not be constrained by what Travis provides as > images. Travis images provide docker, so we can spawn our Travis > jobs inside containers to get arbitrary linux distros. We did this > for libvirt for a while until we switched to GitLab CI. So we > definitely don't need to care about Xenial from a Travis POV no > matter what.
I hope we could finally exploit the possibility to use KVM on Travis ... that won't be possible anymore once we use containers there. Thomas
