In the thread "Issue tracker housecleaning: SVN-1722",
Yasuhito FUTATSUKI wrote:
However, it seems there is more general question, "What versions
do we support on Python 3?"
It seems we don't promise to support any version of Python 3 yet.
So I think we can restrict version to support for Python 3,
comparatively safely.
Python 3.4 had reached end of life[1]. And developers might not
have test environment with older Python 3.
Branko Čibej wrote:
To be honest, I wouldn't care about any Python 3 older than 3.5. IMO it
took the 3.x series quite a while to mature from "wow, a new major
version!" to "a better scripting language". 3.5 or thereabouts was the
turning point.
I found a nice graphic display of Python version lifetimes:
"Python Release Cycle" <https://python-release-cycle.glitch.me/>
linked from
"Python 2.7 Contdown" <https://pythonclock.org/>
My first thought is we don't want to waste effort supporting anything
that isn't going to be useful, and we should be looking ahead to what
versions it will make sense to support around the middle of next year,
when svn 1.14 LTS is being deployed.
At that point Python 3.5 will be close to its end of life, so 3.6 looks
like a reasonable minimum to require.
As Python 2.7 will be EOL before we branch svn 1.14, should we drop
support for Python 2 right now in our development (trunk)? Not remove
all existing support for it, not yet; that should wait until after we
branch svn 1.14. But right now remove the promise of 2.7 support, and
stop testing it, and stop caring about keeping compatible with it.
WDYT?
- Julian
