I would suggest if you want to drop versions of python to test that we at the minimum test:
1. Lowest version of python 2 we support 2. High version of python 2 we support 3. Lowest version of python 3 we support 4. Highest stable version of python 3 we support We would want to test others versions because of some behavior it shows that breaks something, or because we want more coverage for finding something. My personal option is that testing more if it cheap to do so, is always better. It never hurts and can find unexpected issues. At the very least test the ranges. Hope everything else in the middle will be fine… well at least until one knows better. Then add that to the testing until it falls off the minimum supported version. Jason From: Scons-dev <scons-dev-boun...@scons.org> On Behalf Of Bill Deegan Sent: Friday, July 20, 2018 10:20 PM To: SCons developer list <scons-dev@scons.org> Subject: Re: [Scons-dev] Should we remove python 3.5 from our CI tests Pretty certain Gary's with me in saying, SCons will support Python 2.7 and 3.5+ in (at least) the 3.x releases. Most likely through (at least) the end of 2018. I know many who actively participate in SCons community live on the leading edge of OS and Python releases but many users do not. Also, there are still some rough edges to our Python 3 support. Until it's rock solid (and no one has found an issue for a while), dropping py 2.7 would be unwise. -Bill SCons Project Co-Manager. On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 4:11 PM, Jonathon Reinhart <jonathon.reinh...@gmail.com<mailto:jonathon.reinh...@gmail.com>> wrote: > True but who uses Debian Stable for anything relating to software > development, it is a server distribution. I'm not sure where you got the idea that Debian is a "server distribution". Lots of people use Debian as a desktop OS, and my team uses Debian for software development. I think SCons would be making a serious mistake if it dropped support for Python 3.5. Just because the distro is using an older version of SCons, doesn't mean that SCons shouldn't support the latest version of Python available on the system. This is particularly troublesome for me as I consider putting together a new build image, based on Debian 9, but with latest SCons installed from source. I'm all for cleaning up old cruft, but it seems like removing support for a version of Python that's less than 3 years old seems a bit aggressive. _______________________________________________ Scons-dev mailing list Scons-dev@scons.org<mailto:Scons-dev@scons.org> https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpairlist2.pair.net%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fscons-dev&data=02%7C01%7C%7C30f2ab5440db4846466d08d5eeb9e544%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636677404537222288&sdata=t84s%2FlzSszFu1%2FKvFcO4FkZ9pFUQAgAkmaCq0GTtYjI%3D&reserved=0>
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