[Twisted-Python] [RFC] Drop support for Python 3.5 sometime after May 2021?
Richard van der Hoff
richard at matrix.org
Tue May 19 02:52:34 MDT 2020
On 16/05/2020 06:56, Glyph wrote:
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>> On May 15, 2020, at 8:40 PM, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at crodrigues.org
>> <mailto:rodrigc at crodrigues.org>> wrote:
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>> 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?
>
Sadly we have an important customer whose servers run debian oldstable,
which means we need to stay compatible with 3.5 until we can persuade
them to upgrade, and it's taken a couple of years to get them off python
2.7...
I'm not sure that should necessarily affect your plans, but I doubt
we're alone in this situation.
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