Agreed. +1
Sent from my iPhone > On 6 Dec 2022, at 6:44 am, Tomaz Muraus <to...@tomaz.me> wrote: > > A lot of development and testing libraries we depend on (tox, pytest, etc.) > recently dropped support for Python 3.6 which makes it even harder for us to > support it and keep dependencies up to date. > > Per consensus from this thread, I will go ahead and remove support for Python > 3.6 in the next "major" Libcloud release (v3.7.0). > > ------- Original Message ------- >> On Friday, September 9th, 2022 at 2:19 PM, Tomaz Muraus <to...@tomaz.me> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> Thanks and a good call on pyupgrade - I need to check if it also supports >> automatically migrating type annotations from comments directly into the >> code (since we still have type annotations in the comments and that's not >> needed anymore and we can utilize native syntax). >> >> ------- Original Message ------- >> On Thursday, September 8th, 2022 at 11:26 PM, anthony shaw >> anthony.p.s...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >>> +1 >>> >>> Makes sense >>> >>> Pip is smart enough to resolve an older version for 3.6 users. >>> >>> We can also use this to update syntax for 3.7 >>> >>> https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade >>> >>> Anthony >>> >>>> On 8 Sep 2022, at 10:11 pm, Eric Johnson erjoh...@apache.org wrote: >>>> >>>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 3:35 AM Tomaz Muraus to...@tomaz.me wrote: >>>> >>>>> Python 3.6 has been officially end of life since December, 2021 ( >>>>> https://endoflife.date/python). >>>>> >>>>> Latest versions of some of the testing and lint libraries we use don't >>>>> support it anymore. >>>>> >>>>> Because of that, I propose dropping support for Python 3.6 in Libcloud >>>>> v3.7.0. This would also allow us to align better with other popular Python >>>>> packages which more closely align with currently supported (non EOL) >>>>> Python >>>>> version. >>>>> >>>>> Do people think that's reasonable? Does anyone have any objections? >>>> >>>> Sounds very reasonable. No objections and thank you Tomaz! >>>> >>>>> Per package download stats >>>>> (https://pypistats.org/packages/apache-libcloud), >>>>> there are still some downloads under Python 3.6.... >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Tomaz
