Re: [Cython] Remove Py3.4 support in Cython 3.0?

2021-08-14 Thread Stefan Behnel
This should also have gone to cython-users (not just cython-devel), as it has the larger audience. Stefan Behnel wrote: Hi, I looked up where Python 3.4 is still being used. Ubuntu 14.04 – EOS 2019, EOL April 2022 Debian 8 – EOL Centos 6 – EOL Later distribution versions have newer CPythons:

Re: [Cython] Remove Py3.4 support in Cython 3.0?

2021-08-14 Thread da-woods
None from me - nobody on Ubuntu 14.04 (or similar) is going to get Cython 3 from their distribution. And if they're installing Cython manually then they can probably install a newer Python manually. Looking at the stats on PyPI (https://pypistats.org/packages/cython) the numbers of downloads f

Re: [Cython] Remove Py3.4 support in Cython 3.0?

2021-08-14 Thread Lisandro Dalcin
On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 at 11:21, Stefan Behnel wrote: > > Given that Py3.5 is also going out of support in major Linux distributions > within a year's time, I'd suggest we drop support for it in Cython 3.1, > together with Py2 support, making the minimum version Py3.6. That would > mean that we can

[Cython] Remove Py3.4 support in Cython 3.0?

2021-08-14 Thread Stefan Behnel
Hi, I looked up where Python 3.4 is still being used. Ubuntu 14.04 – EOS 2019, EOL April 2022 Debian 8 – EOL Centos 6 – EOL Later distribution versions have newer CPythons: Ubuntu 16.04: Py3.5 (EOS April 2021, EOL 2024) Debian 9: Py3.5 (EOL June 2022) Centos 7: Py3.6 (EOL June 2024) I thin