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

Glyph glyph at twistedmatrix.com
Sun May 17 13:22:37 MDT 2020



> On May 17, 2020, at 12:10 PM, Tom Most <twm at freecog.net> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, May 17, 2020, at 11:31 AM, Glyph wrote:
>> 
>>> On May 16, 2020, at 3:12 PM, Tom Most <twm at freecog.net <mailto:twm at freecog.net>> wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Would your plan to be to just keep twisted pinned until you can EOL ubuntu? I don't want to be putting (non-trivial numbers of) users into the position of having to skip a bunch of updates.
>> 
>> -glyph
> 
> Yes, I'm already working towards EOL of Ubuntu 16.04. I expect to have that work completed by the end of the year.

Glad to hear it :).

> In the one case that may be complicated I think that pinning Twisted will be acceptable, since the service in question is a process supervisor without direct external exposure.

Well in that case I'll just do my best to add lots of goodies (posix_spawn support!) that will make you want to upgrade that to current twisted and python 3.8 :).

-g

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