Re: Drop support for Python 3.7?

On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 at 07:55, Aditya Toshniwal <
aditya(dot)toshniwal(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 7:04 PM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 at 14:23, Aditya Toshniwal <
>> aditya(dot)toshniwal(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Hackers,
>>>
>>> Beginning Flask v2.3.0, the support for Python 3.7 is dropped. So we
>>> have pinned to the last version of 2.2.*.
>>> We cannot stay there, and we'll need to update this. Most of the python
>>> packages are dropping support for python 3.7.
>>> So should we move ahead or stay put? I can see most OS's have at least
>>> python 3.8 packages.
>>>
>>
>> Most? What platforms do we support that don't have 3.8+?
>>
> From what we support, only Debian 10(Buster) do not have a 3.8+ python
> release.
>

Hmm, well Buster has just moved into LTS, where it'll be for about another
year. I'm on the fence about whether we should de-support it now; it's
still in common use AFAIA - in fact postgresql.org still has a handful of
installations that have yet to be moved to Bullseye.

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