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G S Niteesh Babu
f37c34d601 python: add optional pygments dependency
Added pygments as optional dependency for AQMP TUI.
This is required for the upcoming syntax highlighting feature
in AQMP TUI.
The dependency has also been added in the devel optional group.

Added mypy 'ignore_missing_imports' for pygments since it does
not have any type stubs.

Signed-off-by: G S Niteesh Babu <niteesh.gs@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20210823220746.28295-5-niteesh.gs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-09-27 12:10:29 -04:00
G S Niteesh Babu
35755f7d4f python: Add entry point for aqmp-tui
Add an entry point for aqmp-tui. This will allow it to be run from
the command line using "aqmp-tui localhost:1234"
More options available in the TUI can be found using "aqmp-tui -h"

Signed-off-by: G S Niteesh Babu <niteesh.gs@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20210823220746.28295-4-niteesh.gs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-09-27 12:10:29 -04:00
G S Niteesh Babu
aeb6b48a47 python/aqmp-tui: Add AQMP TUI
Added AQMP TUI.

Implements the follwing basic features:
1) Command transmission/reception.
2) Shows events asynchronously.
3) Shows server status in the bottom status bar.
4) Automatic retries on disconnects and error conditions.

Also added type annotations and necessary pylint/mypy configurations.

Signed-off-by: G S Niteesh Babu <niteesh.gs@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20210823220746.28295-3-niteesh.gs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-09-27 12:10:29 -04:00
G S Niteesh Babu
974e2f4722 python: Add dependencies for AQMP TUI
Added dependencies for the upcoming AQMP TUI under the optional
'tui' group.

The same dependencies have also been added under the devel group
since no work around has been found for optional groups to imply
other optional groups.

Signed-off-by: G S Niteesh Babu <niteesh.gs@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20210823220746.28295-2-niteesh.gs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-09-27 12:10:29 -04:00
John Snow
a4ffaecd57 python/aqmp: Add Coverage.py support
I'm not exposing this via the Makefile help, it's not likely to be
useful to passersby. Switch the avocado runner to the 'legacy' runner
for now, as the new runner seems to obscure coverage reports, again.

Usage is to enter your venv of choice and then:
`make check-coverage && xdg-open htmlcov/index.html`.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210915162955.333025-28-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-09-27 12:10:29 -04:00
John Snow
4320f7172f python: bump avocado to v90.0
Avocado v90 includes improved support for running async unit tests. The
workaround that existed prior to v90 causes the unit tests to fail
afterwards, however, so upgrade our minimum version pin to the very
latest and greatest.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210915162955.333025-25-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-09-27 12:10:29 -04:00
John Snow
4cd17f375d python/pylint: disable no-member check
mypy handles this better -- but we only need the workaround because
pylint under Python 3.6 does not understand that a MutableMapping really
does have a .get() method attached.

We could remove this again once 3.7 is our minimum.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210915162955.333025-19-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-09-27 12:10:29 -04:00
John Snow
29a8ea9ba2 python/pylint: disable too-many-function-args
too-many-function-args seems prone to failure when considering
things like Method Resolution Order, which mypy gets correct. When
dealing with multiple inheritance, pylint doesn't seem to understand
which method will actually get called, while mypy does.

Remove the less powerful, redundant check.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210915162955.333025-17-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-09-27 12:10:29 -04:00
John Snow
35b9a85ade python/pylint: Add exception for TypeVar names ('T')
'T' is a common TypeVar name, allow its use.

See also https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/3401 -- In the future,
we might be able to have a separate list of acceptable names for
TypeVars exclusively.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210915162955.333025-4-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-09-27 12:10:29 -04:00
John Snow
a093a65567 python/aqmp: add asynchronous QMP (AQMP) subpackage
For now, it's empty! Soon, it won't be.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210915162955.333025-2-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-09-27 12:10:27 -04:00
John Snow
eb8033f658 python: pylint 2.11 support
We're not ready to enforce f-strings everywhere, so just silence this
new warning.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210916182248.721529-3-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-09-16 15:04:04 -04:00
John Snow
5690b4370b python: Update for pylint 2.10
A few new annoyances. Of note is the new warning for an unspecified
encoding when opening a text file, which actually does indicate a
potentially real problem; see
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0597/#motivation

Use LC_CTYPE to determine an encoding to use for interpreting QEMU's
terminal output. Note that Python states: "language code and encoding
may be None if their values cannot be determined" -- use a platform
default as a backup.

Notes: Passing encoding=None will generate a suppressed warning on
Python 3.10+ that 'None' should not be passed as the encoding
argument. This behavior may be deprecated in the future and the default
switched to be a ubiquitous UTF-8. Opting in to the locale default will
be done by passing the encoding 'locale', but that isn't available in
3.6 through 3.9. Presumably this warning will be unsuppressed some time
prior to the actual switch and we can re-investigate these issues at
that time if necessary.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210916182248.721529-2-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-09-16 15:03:56 -04:00
John Snow
22305c2a08 python: Reduce strictness of pylint's duplicate-code check
Pylint prior to 2.8.3 (We pin at >= 2.8.0) includes function and method
signatures as part of its duplicate checking algorithm. This check does
not listen to pragmas, so the only way to disable it is to turn it off
completely or increase the minimum duplicate lines so that it doesn't
trigger for functions with long, multi-line signatures.

When we decide to upgrade to pylint 2.8.3 or greater, we will be able to
use 'ignore-signatures = true' to the config instead.

I'd prefer not to keep us on the very bleeding edge of pylint if I can
help it -- 2.8.3 came out only three days ago at time of writing.

See: https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/pull/4474
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210809090114.64834-3-eesposit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
2021-09-01 12:57:31 +02:00
Wainer dos Santos Moschetta
6f651a6d84 python: Configure tox to skip missing interpreters
Currently tox tests against the installed interpreters, however if any
supported interpreter is absent then it will return fail. It seems not
reasonable to expect developers to have all supported interpreters
installed on their systems. Luckily tox can be configured to skip
missing interpreters.

This changed the tox setup so that missing interpreters are skipped by
default. On the CI, however, we still want to enforce it tests
against all supported. This way on CI the
--skip-missing-interpreters=false option is passed to tox.

Signed-off-by: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210630184546.456582-1-wainersm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
2021-07-13 15:44:16 -04:00
John Snow
0d52c19a59 python: only check qemu/ subdir with flake8
flake8 is a little eager to check everything it can. Limit it to
checking inside the qemu namespace directory only. Update setup.cfg now
that the exclude patterns are no longer necessary.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210629214323.1329806-11-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-30 21:54:04 -04:00
John Snow
3afa3501cb python: Re-lock pipenv at *oldest* supported versions
tox is already testing the most recent versions. Let's use pipenv to
test the oldest versions we claim to support. This matches the stylistic
choice to have pipenv always test our oldest supported Python version, 3.6.

The effect of this is that the python-check-pipenv CI job on gitlab will
now test against much older versions of these linters, which will help
highlight incompatible changes that might otherwise go unnoticed.

Update instructions for adding and bumping versions in setup.cfg. The
reason for deleting the line that gets added to Pipfile is largely just
to avoid having the version minimums specified in multiple places in
config checked into the tree.

(This patch was written by deleting Pipfile and Pipfile.lock, then
explicitly installing each dependency manually at a specific
version. Then, I restored the prior Pipfile and re-ran `pipenv lock
--dev --keep-outdated` to re-add the qemu dependency back to the pipenv
environment while keeping the "old" packages. It's annoying, yes, but I
think the improvement to test coverage is worthwhile.)

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210629214323.1329806-5-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-30 21:54:04 -04:00
John Snow
82e6517d9d python: Remove global pylint suppressions
These suppressions only apply to a small handful of places. Instead of
disabling them globally, disable them just in the cases where we
need. The design of the machine class grew quite organically with tons
of constructor and class instance variables -- there's little chance of
meaningfully refactoring it in the near term, so just suppress the
warnings for that class.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210629214323.1329806-4-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-30 21:54:04 -04:00
John Snow
7f17908263 python: expose typing information via PEP 561
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0561/#specification

Create 'py.typed' files in each subpackage that indicate to mypy that
this is a typed module, so that users of any of these packages can use
mypy to check their code as well.

Note: Theoretically it's possible to ditch MANIFEST.in in favor of using
package_data in setup.cfg, but I genuinely could not figure out how to
get it to include things from the *source root* into the *package root*;
only how to include things from each subpackage. I tried!

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210629214323.1329806-3-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-30 21:54:04 -04:00
John Snow
957f3c5cee python: add qmp-shell entry point
now 'qmp-shell' should be available from the command line when
installing the python package.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210607200649.1840382-42-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-18 16:10:07 -04:00
John Snow
7e7c2a0de7 python/qemu-ga-client: add entry point
Remove the shebang, and add a package-defined entry point instead. Now,
it can be accessed using 'qemu-ga-client' from the command line after
installing the package.

The next commit adds a forwarder shim that allows the running of this
script without needing to install the package again.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210604155532.1499282-11-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-18 16:10:06 -04:00
John Snow
176c549072 python/qmp: add fuse command to 'qom' tools
The 'fuse' command will be unavailable if 'fusepy' is not installed. It
will simply not load and subsequently be unavailable as a subcommand.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210603003719.1321369-20-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-18 16:10:06 -04:00
John Snow
c63f3b0b29 python: add optional FUSE dependencies
In preparation for moving qom-fuse over to the python package, we need
some new dependencies to support it.

Add an optional 'fusepy' dependency that users of the package can opt
into with e.g. "pip install qemu[fuse]" which installs the requirements
necessary to obtain the additional functionality.

Add the same fusepy dependency to the 'devel' extras group --
unfortunately I do not see a way for optional groups to imply other
optional groups at present, so the dependency is repeated. The
development group needs to include the full set of dependencies for the
purpose of static analysis of all features offered by this library.

Lastly, add the [fuse] extras group to tox's configuration as a
workaround so that if a stale tox environment is found when running
`make check-tox`, tox will know to rebuild its environments.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210603003719.1321369-17-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-18 16:10:06 -04:00
John Snow
30ec845c59 scripts/qom-fuse: add static type hints
Because fusepy does not have type hints, add some targeted warning
suppressions.

Namely, we need to allow subclassing something of an unknown type (in
qom_fuse.py), and we need to allow missing imports (recorded against
fuse itself) because mypy will be unable to import fusepy (even when
installed) as it has no types nor type stubs available.

Note: Until now, it was possible to run invocations like 'mypy qemu/'
from ./python and have that work. However, these targeted suppressions
require that you run 'mypy -p qemu/' instead. The correct, canonical
invocation is recorded in ./python/tests/mypy.sh and all of the various
CI invocations always use this correct form.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210603003719.1321369-16-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-18 16:10:06 -04:00
John Snow
d229f1c83d python: Add 'fh' to known-good variable names
fd and fh are fine: we often use these for "file descriptor" or "file
handle" accordingly. It is rarely the case that you need to enforce a
more semantically meaningful name beyond "This is the file we are using
right now."

While we're here: add comments for all of the non-standard pylint
names. (And the underscore.)

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210603003719.1321369-10-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-18 16:10:06 -04:00
John Snow
7c4c595f13 python/qmp: add qom script entry points
Add the 'qom', 'qom-set', 'qom-get', 'qom-list', and 'qom-tree' scripts
to the qemu.qmp package. When you install this package, these scripts
will become available on your command line.

(e.g. when inside of a venv, `cd python && pip install .` will add
'qom', 'qom-set', etc to your $PATH.)

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210603003719.1321369-6-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-18 16:10:06 -04:00
John Snow
3c8de38c85 python: add tox support
This is intended to be a manually run, non-CI script.

Use tox to test the linters against all python versions from 3.6 to
3.10. This will only work if you actually have those versions installed
locally, but Fedora makes this easy:

> sudo dnf install python3.6 python3.7 python3.8 python3.9 python3.10

Unlike the pipenv tests (make venv-check), this pulls "whichever"
versions of the python packages, so they are unpinned and may break as
time goes on. In the case that breakages are found, setup.cfg should be
amended accordingly to avoid the bad dependant versions, or the code
should be amended to work around the issue.

With confidence that the tests pass on 3.6 through 3.10 inclusive, add
the appropriate classifiers to setup.cfg to indicate which versions we
claim to support.

Tox 3.18.0 or above is required to use the 'allowlist_externals' option.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210527211715.394144-31-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-01 16:21:21 -04:00
John Snow
31622b2a8a python: add avocado-framework and tests
Try using avocado to manage our various tests; even though right now
they're only invoking shell scripts and not really running any
python-native code.

Create tests/, and add shell scripts which call out to mypy, flake8,
pylint and isort to enforce the standards in this directory.

Add avocado-framework to the setup.cfg development dependencies, and add
avocado.cfg to store some preferences for how we'd like the test output
to look.

Finally, add avocado-framework to the Pipfile environment and lock the
new dependencies. We are using avocado >= 87.0 here to take advantage of
some features that Cleber has helpfully added to make the test output
here *very* friendly and easy to read for developers that might chance
upon the output in Gitlab CI.

[Note: ALL of the dependencies get updated to the most modern versions
that exist at the time of this writing. No way around it that I have
seen. Not ideal, but so it goes.]

Provided you have the right development dependencies (mypy, flake8,
isort, pylint, and now avocado-framework) You should be able to run
"avocado --config avocado.cfg run tests/" from the python folder to run
all of these linters with the correct arguments.

(A forthcoming commit adds the much easier 'make check'.)

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210527211715.394144-28-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-01 16:21:21 -04:00
John Snow
dbe75f5566 python: add devel package requirements to setuptools
setuptools doesn't have a formal understanding of development requires,
but it has an optional feataures section. Fine; add a "devel" feature
and add the requirements to it.

To avoid duplication, we can modify pipenv to install qemu[devel]
instead. This enables us to run invocations like "pip install -e
.[devel]" and test the package on bleeding-edge packages beyond those
specified in Pipfile.lock.

Importantly, this also allows us to install the qemu development
packages in a non-networked mode: `pip3 install --no-index -e .[devel]`
will now fail if the proper development dependencies are not already
met. This can be useful for automated build scripts where fetching
network packages may be undesirable.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210527211715.394144-27-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-01 16:21:21 -04:00
John Snow
158ac451b9 python: move .isort.cfg into setup.cfg
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210527211715.394144-24-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-01 16:21:21 -04:00
John Snow
0542a4c957 python: add mypy to pipenv
0.730 appears to be about the oldest version that works with the
features we want, including nice human readable output (to make sure
iotest 297 passes), and type-parameterized Popen generics.

0.770, however, supports adding 'strict' to the config file, so require
at least 0.770.

Now that we are checking a namespace package, we need to tell mypy to
allow PEP420 namespaces, so modify the mypy config as part of the move.

mypy can now be run from the python root by typing 'mypy -p qemu'.

A note on mypy invocation: Running it as "mypy qemu/" changes the import
path detection mechanisms in mypy slightly, and it will fail. See
https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/8584 for a decent entry point with
more breadcrumbs on the various behaviors that contribute to this subtle
difference.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210527211715.394144-23-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-01 16:21:21 -04:00
John Snow
e941c844e4 python: move mypy.ini into setup.cfg
mypy supports reading its configuration values from a central project
configuration file; do so.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210527211715.394144-22-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-01 16:21:21 -04:00
John Snow
21d0b86679 python: add excluded dirs to flake8 config
Instruct flake8 to avoid certain well-known directories created by
python tooling that it ought not check.

Note that at-present, nothing actually creates a ".venv" directory; but
it is in such widespread usage as a de-facto location for a developer's
virtual environment that it should be excluded anyway. A forthcoming
commit canonizes this with a "make venv" command.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210527211715.394144-20-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-01 16:21:21 -04:00
John Snow
81f8c4467c python: move flake8 config to setup.cfg
Update the comment concerning the flake8 exception to match commit
42c0dd12, whose commit message stated:

A note on the flake8 exception: flake8 will warn on *any* bare except,
but pylint's is context-aware and will suppress the warning if you
re-raise the exception.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210527211715.394144-19-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-01 16:21:21 -04:00
John Snow
ef42440d79 python: move pylintrc into setup.cfg
Delete the empty settings now that it's sharing a home with settings for
other tools.

pylint can now be run from this folder as "pylint qemu".

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210527211715.394144-17-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-01 16:21:21 -04:00
John Snow
3afc32906f python: add VERSION file
Python infrastructure as it exists today is not capable reliably of
single-sourcing a package version from a parent directory. The authors
of pip are working to correct this, but as of today this is not possible.

The problem is that when using pip to build and install a python
package, it copies files over to a temporary directory and performs its
build there. This loses access to any information in the parent
directory, including git itself.

Further, Python versions have a standard (PEP 440) that may or may not
follow QEMU's versioning. In general, it does; but naturally QEMU does
not follow PEP 440. To avoid any automatically-generated conflict, a
manual version file is preferred.

I am proposing:

- Python tooling follows the QEMU version, indirectly, but with a major
  version of 0 to indicate that the API is not expected to be
  stable. This would mean version 0.5.2.0, 0.5.1.1, 0.5.3.0, etc.

- In the event that a Python package needs to be updated independently
  of the QEMU version, a pre-release alpha version should be preferred,
  but *only* after inclusion to the qemu development or stable branches.

  e.g. 0.5.2.0a1, 0.5.2.0a2, and so on should be preferred prior to
  5.2.0's release.

- The Python core tooling makes absolutely no version compatibility
  checks or constraints. It *may* work with releases of QEMU from the
  past or future, but it is not required to.

  i.e., "qemu.machine" will, for now, remain in lock-step with QEMU.

- We reserve the right to split the qemu package into independently
  versioned subpackages at a later date. This might allow for us to
  begin versioning QMP independently from QEMU at a later date, if
  we so choose.

Implement this versioning scheme by adding a VERSION file and setting it
to 0.6.0.0a1.

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Reviewed-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
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John Snow
ea1213b7cc python: add qemu package installer
Add setup.cfg and setup.py, necessary for installing a package via
pip. Add a ReST document (PACKAGE.rst) explaining the basics of what
this package is for and who to contact for more information. This
document will be used as the landing page for the package on PyPI.

List the subpackages we intend to package by name instead of using
find_namespace because find_namespace will naively also packages tests,
things it finds in the dist/ folder, etc. I could not figure out how to
modify this behavior; adding allow/deny lists to setuptools kept
changing the packaged hierarchy. This works, roll with it.

I am not yet using a pyproject.toml style package manifest, because
"editable" installs are not defined (yet?) by PEP-517/518.

I consider editable installs crucial for development, though they have
(apparently) always been somewhat poorly defined.

Pip now (19.2 and later) now supports editable installs for projects
using pyproject.toml manifests, but might require the use of the
--no-use-pep517 flag, which somewhat defeats the point. Full support for
setup.py-less editable installs was not introduced until pip 21.1.1:
7a95720e79

For now, while the dust settles, stick with the de-facto
setup.py/setup.cfg combination supported by setuptools. It will be worth
re-evaluating this point again in the future when our supported build
platforms all ship a fairly modern pip.

Additional reading on this matter:

https://github.com/pypa/packaging-problems/issues/256
https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/6334
https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/6375
https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/6434
https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/6438

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210527211715.394144-11-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-01 16:21:21 -04:00