On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 01:08:35PM +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> On 26. 08. 24 12:58, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 6:11 AM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hello Pythonistas.
> > > 
> > > The virtualenv version in Fedora is currently stuck at 20.21.1 (April 
> > > 2023).
> > > 
> > > This is because version 20.22+ dropped support for Python 2.7 and 3.6 
> > > virtual
> > > environments.
> > > 
> > > Now when Python 2.7 was retired via
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RetirePython2.7 the only 
> > > difference is
> > > Python 3.6.
> > > 
> > > If we upgrade virtualenv, developers targeting Python 3.6 (e.g. RHEL 8 
> > > platform
> > > Python) can use `python3.6 -m venv` to create Python 3.6 virtual 
> > > environments.
> > > Developers using tox can follow
> > > https://tox.wiki/en/4.18.0/faq.html#testing-end-of-life-python-versions
> > > 
> > > I propose we bite the bullet and update virtualenv to the latest version 
> > > in
> > > Fedora 42+.
> > 
> > Why not do it for 41? The reason we didn't do it before was because of
> > Python 2.7, which we dropped now.
> 
> Because I think kit's too late in the F41 dev cycle to introduce such change
> and I am willing to keep backporting fixes to old virtualenv in Fedora 41.
> 
> The reason was both 2.7 and 3.6. And as of now, 2.7 is still in Fedora 41.

+1 to doing this just in rawhide now.

Zbyszek
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