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Re: Python 3.5 EOL; when can require 3.6?
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Philippe Mathieu-Daudé |
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Re: Python 3.5 EOL; when can require 3.6? |
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Wed, 16 Sep 2020 10:16:36 +0200 |
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On 9/16/20 10:02 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> 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
Clever :) So maybe we can script that.
>
> Thomas
>
Re: Python 3.5 EOL; when can require 3.6?, Thomas Huth, 2020/09/16