uwefladrich/scriptengine

Drop Python3.6 support

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uwefladrich commented

Python3.6 is more and more difficult to maintain:

  • ModuleNotFoundError because old setuptools do not have a good auto-discovery of packages
  • deepdiff dependencies difficult to satisfy with old pip versions
  • Python3.6 not standard on recent Github runner containers
uwefladrich commented

This would be a good issue to link with a ScriptEngine 1.0 release.

kinow commented

+1, FWIW I've been using 3.8 as minimum for newer projects when the target platform is not using an older version, but will probably switch to 3.9 or 3.10 soon. Moreover, 3.6 is EOL, 3.7's security time is almost over, and will be EOL'ed by 2023-06-27:

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https://devguide.python.org/versions/

uwefladrich commented

Yes, I think the rationale for dropping 3.6 is convincing. My main issue with actually doing it right away is that SE is used on HPC machines that are sometimes rather slow to upgrade software. I am just not sure that Python 3.6 is still standard on one of the machines were it is used at the moment.
But it shouldn't be an excuse to drag on 3.6 forever. I have a plan to release 1.0 before long and drop 3.6 with this release. Maybe before summer?

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