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Re: Python 3.5 EOL; when can require 3.6?
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Thomas Huth |
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Re: Python 3.5 EOL; when can require 3.6? |
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Wed, 16 Sep 2020 10:02:52 +0200 |
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On 16/09/2020 09.53, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 9/16/20 9:43 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> We require Python 3.5. It will reach its "end of life" at the end of
>> September 2020[*]. Any reason not to require 3.6 for 5.2? qemu-iotests
>> already does for its Python parts.
>>
>>
>> [*] https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3510/
>
> Not answering your question, but it would help to start a table
> of "oldest package released" versions, with our supported distributions
> as columns and package names as row.
>
> This way when new distributions are released (and oldest dropped from
> our side) we can add/remove a column and see the oldest version we aim
> to support.
That's quite a bit of extra work - I think it's enough to look up the
versions on repology instead, e.g.:
https://repology.org/project/python/versions
Thomas
Re: Python 3.5 EOL; when can require 3.6?, Thomas Huth, 2020/09/16