[Twisted-Python] [RFC] Drop support for Python 3.5 sometime after May 2021?

Tom Most twm at freecog.net
Sat May 16 16:12:22 MDT 2020


I'm (unfortunately) still shipping some Twisted apps on Ubuntu 16.04's Python 3.5. However, I am fine with dropping Python 3.5 support. I think it's certainly worth it for variable annotations and contextvars.

---Tom

On Fri, May 15, 2020, at 10:56 PM, Glyph wrote:
> 
> 
>> On May 15, 2020, at 8:40 PM, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at crodrigues.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Maybe it would be OK to do one more release of Twisted and announce that as the last release supporting Python 3.5, before
>> dropping support? 
> Yeah; whenever we drop a Python version we should always support at least one more release, so that people have some notice before they lose access to the next set of security updates.
> 
> Any 3.5 users on this list who would want to postpone it longer than this?
> 
> -glyph
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