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From: Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	Owen Hilyard <ohilyard@iol.unh.edu>
Cc: "dts@dpdk.org" <dts@dpdk.org>, dev <dev@dpdk.org>,
	nd <nd@arm.com>, nd <nd@arm.com>
Subject: RE: [RFC] Python Version for DTS
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 01:00:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DBAPR08MB58148BF80D2211A49D56B432985B9@DBAPR08MB5814.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220120075324.04a53563@hermes.local>

<snip>

> 
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:42:51 -0500
> Owen Hilyard <ohilyard@iol.unh.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > DTS has operated using the version of python available in the oldest
> > supported Ubuntu LTS for a while now, but after some discussion in the
> > working group, we decided that DTS should designate a Python version
> > explicitly for the sake of compatibility. My initial proposal is
> > Python 3.6, due to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS shipping with it by default.
> > Currently, the Community CI Lab runs Python 3.8 on all testers (Ubuntu
> > 20.04 LTS), but for the sake of compatibility a lower python version might be
> desirable.
> >
> > The working group is specifically looking for reasons to not use Python 3.6.
> >
> > The Community CI Lab perspective is that versions higher than 3.8 are
> > not acceptable due to the issues with changing the default Python
> > installation on Ubuntu. This may be raised to 3.10 in June of this
> > year after we have had time to evaluate the 22.04 release of Ubuntu.
I guess only reason to specify a (max) supported Python version is the environment in community lab. So, if someone submits a patch that requires a newer version, it should be caught in the CI. This should enable us to reject such a patch.

> >
> > Owen Hilyard
> 
> Python 3.6 reached end of life in 2021.
> 
> https://lwn.net/Articles/880859/

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-21  1:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-20 14:42 Owen Hilyard
2022-01-20 15:53 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-01-21  1:00   ` Honnappa Nagarahalli [this message]
2022-02-02 13:37     ` Owen Hilyard

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