Update APE 10 to extend to Python 3.7 and beyond?

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Update APE 10 to extend to Python 3.7 and beyond?

Closed this issue 6 years ago · 4 comments

https://github.com/astropy/astropy-APEs/blob/master/APE10.rst only covers up to 3.6. But this is still too early but we need to do it eventually when Python 3.8, etc comes out.

Answer 1 · 2019-02-08T16:56:56.000Z

I think we wrote it as a generalised rule so that we can figure it out for future releases automatically: the Python 3.x versions supported by an Astropy release would be the versions supported by the Python developers. So maybe no need to update the APE?

Answer 2 · 2019-02-08T17:07:15.000Z

I guess I don't quite get the equation here then. Tentatively, Astropy 3.3 would be Nov/Dec 2019 and it drops Python 3.5 but Python 3.5's end-of-life is not till 2020-09-13 in https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches. So, we drop it in a release that happens about a year before end-of-life?

Answer 3 · 2019-02-08T17:52:08.000Z

@pllim - 3.3 is not happening, it will be 4.0 which has a 2 year lifetime that goes beyond 2020.

Answer 4 · 2019-02-08T18:03:24.000Z

Ak, ok. Thanks for the clarification!