Even 3.4 is marked as EOL by Python: https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches
-Jon On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 9:55 AM Ian McInerney <[email protected]> wrote: > Wayne, > > That makes sense. I run Fedora so I have 3.6 available to me currently. In > this case adding in support for 3.3 isn't insurmountable since it only adds > 1 additional elif statement. I am hesitant to suggest bumping the python > version for 5.1.3 (which is what this bug is targeted to), but for 6.0 it > might make sense to bump the version and clean up the code if possible. > > -Ian > > On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 12:57 PM Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Ian, >> >> I typically use Debian stable (Stretch) as a benchmark for dependency >> versions which has version 3.5.3 of Python3. Seeing that Debian old >> stable (Jessie) has Python3 version 3.4.2 and Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) is >> 3.5.1, I would think 3.4 would be an acceptable minimum version of >> Python 3 to support. Right now KiCad requires version 3.3 or greater >> but I'm fine with bumping it to >=3.4 if it saves us a bunch of >> conditional python version code. There is already enough of that with >> python2/3. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Wayne >> >> On 5/24/19 6:02 AM, Ian McInerney wrote: >> > I am in the process of fixing a bug related to the importing of the >> > plugins (https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1828595), and the root >> > cause is a change that was made between python 2 and 3 in which module >> > contains the reload function. >> > >> > Unfortunately it isn't as simple for the python 3 side of things, since >> > the reload() function has been moved around in both 3.2 and 3.4, so the >> > current solution I have would only support python >3.4 and also python >> > 2. This leads to the question, what is the minimum python version that >> > kicad requires the user to have installed? Do we need to add in the >> > support for versions between 3.0 and 3.4? Doing this seems like it will >> > complicate the code, since we will essentially be left with if blocks to >> > import/call functions based on every conceivable python version. >> > >> > -Ian >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> > Post to : [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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