Re: [RFC PATCH v3 00/20] configure: create a python venv and ensure meson, sphinx

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 4/26/23 10:05, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >
>
> Thanks, this looks pretty good.  Some changes I'd make for the non-RFC 
> version:
>
> - I think we should just check in the meson wheel (which also removes 
> the need for patch 12, so it can be done in its stead) and remove the 
> submodule
>
> - The verbosity of mkvenv.py can be tuned down and most prints replaced 
> with logger.info() or logger.debug()
>
> - While I agree with keeping patch 18 separate, I would move it earlier 
> so that patch 19 can be squashed into patch 14
>
> - I am ambivalent about keeping --enable/--disable-pypi in the first 
> committed patchset, but in any case I would move patches 16 and 20 
> before patch 15

Just one extra thing, since we're changing so much of Python handling 
and since the code is written, I would keep the Debian 10 workarounds 
for now, and only drop them after we drop support for 3.6.

Paolo