Re: lang/python37 removal proposal from 29 June (last call)

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 11:13:55AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 11:36:32AM +0200, Adam Ciarciński wrote:
> >> Python 3.7 has reached its end-of-life. I would like to remove it as
> >> soon as possible. Pkgsrc doesn't really support Python 3.7 for some
> >> time now, and more and more Python modules are dropping 3.7 support,
> >> so I think it's time to get rid of it. Objections?
> >
> > As for how other distributions are doing, I browsed
> >
> > https://repology.org/project/python/versions
> >
> > for some I know by name:
> >
> > No Python 3.7:
> >
> > Gentoo, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Arch, Nix, OpenSUSE (but they still have
> > 3.6!), Ubuntu, Debian
> >
> > Yes Python 3.7:
> >
> > Fedora, Homebrew
> 
> Should I read that as:
> 
>   I think we should remove 3.7.
> 
> or
> 
>   I think we should defer.
> 
> ?

I think we should remove it. It's EOL and most other distributions
already removed it.

Cheers,
 Thomas