On Fri, 2018-05-25 at 15:57 -0600, Mats Wichmann wrote: > On 05/25/2018 03:44 PM, Bill Deegan wrote: > > We need to test every version we say we support. > > That's the purpose of the CI... > > well, sure. > > but Python itself pretty much only supports the last two 3.x versions > (there may be some emergency bugfixes later than that, if I recall > the > most recent release PEP suggested a 5-year sunset even for that which > would take 3.5 out through 2019).
Which fits with the statement of no change till at least end of 2018. > > And Jonathon: > > > No way. Distros (e.g. Debian 9) package Python 3.5. > > If the model is "support whatever is supported in active Linux > distrubtions", that's a valid point. In fact, by that measure, since > long-term distributions like RHEL7 and Ubuntu 14.04 use 3.4, that > should > be on the support/CI list as well. The distros package SCons and well as Python, so there doesn't seem to be a problem. > > Are you going to drop Python 2 support too? > > 2.7 is still a supported version, even at python.org. Not entirely true, there is 2.7.15, but unless there is a 2.7.16 one cannot claim it is being supported. PSF have basically returned to the position that Python 2 has gone end of life. -- Russel. =========================================== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
_______________________________________________ Scons-dev mailing list Scons-dev@scons.org https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev
