Removing support for Python 3.6 (even 3.7?) this cycle (for upcoming hg-6.9)

[Pierre-Yves David]

And here come the 11th. Let's drop support for Python 3.6 and 3.7 in the 
coming Mercurial 6.9.

On 9/4/24 17:31, Pierre-Yves David wrote:
>
> 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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