I have not seen any voice raising against dropping 3.6 and 3.7 support
in 6.9.
Since we are just out of the summer break, I suggest we give it one more
week and drop support for 3.6 and 3.7 next week (2024-09-11) unless some
objection are raised by then.
In the case it turned out to be needed by users, we will look into
building .rpm bundling a newer Python as we did in the past. However
lets wait until such need arise before diverting time in it.
See you in a week for the ceremony of dropping Python version.
On 7/25/24 14:41, Raphaël Gomès wrote:
Hi all,
The question of removing support for Python 3.6 (and to a lesser
extent 3.7) is being raised more and more, while the burden of
supporting it is increasing.
Does anyone still care about Python 3.6 or even Python 3.7? Both
versions have been EOL for a while (2021-12-23 and 2023-06-27
respectively), and distros/users seem to largely have jumped to much
more recent versions. For instance, Centos 7 and 8 are EOL and the
latter already had 3.9, Rocky Linux 8 has 3.6, 3.8, 3.9, 3.11 and 3.12.
IMO the limited maintenance burden of general usage that the
contributors can afford has been reached for 3.6 and probably 3.7.
I - along with other frequent contributors - would be *very happy* to
get rid of 3.6 and 3.7 in one fell swoop, considering that 3.8 will be
EOL in November of this year, which is already close.
If nobody says anything, I suggest that support for 3.6 and 3.7 be
removed during this cycle, which is for the upcoming Mercurial 6.9.
Please tell us what you think,
Raphaël
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