Re: Python 3.5 EOL; when can require 3.6?

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 9/16/20 10:02 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 16/09/2020 09.53, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> On 9/16/20 9:43 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>> We require Python 3.5.  It will reach its "end of life" at the end of
>>> September 2020[*].  Any reason not to require 3.6 for 5.2?  qemu-iotests
>>> already does for its Python parts.
>>>
>>>
>>> [*] https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3510/
>>
>> Not answering your question, but it would help to start a table
>> of "oldest package released" versions, with our supported distributions
>> as columns and package names as row.
>>
>> This way when new distributions are released (and oldest dropped from
>> our side) we can add/remove a column and see the oldest version we aim
>> to support.
> 
> That's quite a bit of extra work - I think it's enough to look up the
> versions on repology instead, e.g.:
> 
> https://repology.org/project/python/versions

Clever :) So maybe we can script that.

> 
>  Thomas
>