[TIP] Dropping Python 3.2 support for various projects

Laura Creighton lac at openend.se
Thu Oct 22 14:22:36 PDT 2015


In a message of Fri, 23 Oct 2015 10:11:23 +1300, Robert Collins writes:
>Hi, so pip 8 is going to drop support for Python 3.2; setuptools 19
>will drop support for it too.
>
>This implies either pinning pip and setuptools in CI, or dropping
>support for 3.2 in things where CI depends on those tools.
>
>I'm sending this email to poll for folk that *need* support for 3.2,
>to see how widespread the impact of dropping support would be.
>(Obviously folk can pin versions of the libraries that drop 3.2
>support too - it just propogates)..
>
>If there isn't a hue and cry about this then I think it will make
>sense to drop support for Python 3.2 in mock, testtools, fixtures,
>testrepository, testscenarios, testresources, unittest2, traceback2
>and linecache2 - generally everything :)
>
>-Rob

PyPy only supports 3.2 right now.  The 3.3 release is almost ready,
first rc went out today.  It may make sense to hold off on this until
PyPy has made it's next release.

Laura



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