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

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 4/26/23 18:16, John Snow wrote:
>      > - 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
>
> I might be stubborn but I think I want to keep it in for now. If it 
> needs redesigned to fit with the other flags you want to add, I think 
> that's OK.
>
> if we vendor the whl directly in qemu.git we won't need PyPI for meson, 
> but it's still useful for Sphinx so I think I'm still leaning towards 
> keeping it.

Yes, it's definitely useful.  It's just that unifying $python with 
sphinx-build's interpreter is as a separate (and earlier) step than 
introducing PyPI.

> I'll try to refactor to keep it at the tail end of the series.

Cool, thanks.

>     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.
>
>
> This series was written assuming we get to drop 3.6 as a prereq. Is that 
> not the case?
>
> Or did you mean to write 3.7 there?

Yes, 3.7.

Paolo