Re: Python 3.5 and 3.6 removal (was Re: Bonfire of the Packages)

[Ake Rehnman <ake.rehnman@gmail.com>]

Den tors 28 mars 2024 kl 18:50 skrev Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>:
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> On 24/03/2024 17:46, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > On 24/03/2024 17:31, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> >> On 24/03/2024 15:07, Jon Turney wrote:
> >>> On 24/09/2023 13:32, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I assume you are OK with the removal of python 3.5 (EOL Sept 2020)
> >>> and 3.6 (EOL Dec 2021)?
> >>>
> >>> (I'm still dealing with cleaning up the final pieces of python27
> >>> detritus, but these should hopefully be much smaller tasks)
> >>>
> >> nothing should depend from 3.5
> >> not sure for 3.6
> >
> > I've automated some of the analysis I was doing for python2 packages and
> > the results are now available at [1].
> >
> > So yeah, it looks like nothing uses 3.5.
> >
> > There are just a couple of packages using 3.6, I guess I'll ping the
> > maintainers about those.
> >
> > [1] https://cygwin.com/packages/reports/python_rebuilds.html
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> Ake,

Hi Jon, sorry for the late reply.
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> Is it possible to update/rebuild libftdi1, which only publishes python
> bindings for the soon-to-be removed python36?

I am not sure, I have not looked at it for so many years, I have not
even used cygwin since I don't remember...
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> (Or indicate that you are no longer interested in maintaining this
> package, which will probably lead to it's removal).

Do you have any stats on how many installs it was last year?
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> Thanks.
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