[OE-core] OE-Core python minimum version requirement

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 06:02:37PM -0500, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 05:45:03PM +0000, 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?
> 
> In having to pick a minimum Python 3 for U-Boot, it was noted that
> Debian/Stretch is 3.4 and gets end of long term support in 2022.  3.5
> was otherwise fine I believe in the end.

Debian 9 (stretch) has 3.5
Debian 8 (jessie) has 3.4

> Tom

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Adrian