[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Increase prerequisite from Python 2.4 to Python 2.7.

[Russell Bryant]

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