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

[Pierre-Yves David]

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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