On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 09:17:53AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 31/07/20 09:13, Thomas Huth wrote: > > the bash version that Apple ships is incredibly old (version 3). > > Yes, due to GPLv3. :( I think either we rewrite the whole thing in > Python (except for the "shar"-like code in mkstandalone.sh) I once suggested Python (or anything less awkward than Bash) be used for our harness, but ARM people told me that they like Bash because then they can install the unit tests on minimal images that they use on the ARM models. There may other "embedded" cases for kvm-unit-tests in the future too, if we were to introduce bare-metal targets, etc., so I think the minimal language (Bash) requirement makes sense to maintain (not to mention we already wrote it...) > or we keep > bash 4 as the minimum supported version. Is 4.2 OK? That would allow Thomas' CI to get the coverage we need by using CentOS, without having to install a specific Bash. Thanks, drew
