But ... this begs another question to be asked - until when we want to support Centos 7 ?
On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 13:31, Stefan Miklosovic <stefan.mikloso...@instaclustr.com> wrote: > > All good then, that's why I am asking! > > Thanks > > On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 13:23, Brandon Williams <dri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > This changes my mind and I agree. > > > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 6:21 AM Bowen Song <bo...@bso.ng> wrote: > > > > > > I'm against this change. > > > > > > CentOS 7 only has Python up to 3.6 available from the EPEL repository, > > > and the maintenance updates for CentOS 7 ends in 2024. See: > > > https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product > > > > > > To install Python>3.6 on CentOS 7, the user must either use a 3rd party > > > repository that's not maintained by the same project or compile it from > > > source. None of these is as simple as "yum install epel-release && yum > > > install python36". > > > > > > I would strongly recommend keeping Python 3.6 compatibility until > > > 2024-06-30 when the CentOS 7 maintenance updates is stopped. > > > > > > On 05/04/2022 11:35, Stefan Miklosovic wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I stumbled upon this ticket (1) > > > > > > > > We will have Cassandra running with unsupported Python 3.6 once we > > > > release 4.1 which is not good in my books. > > > > > > > > I would like to try to bump it to 3.8 as minimum, it will get security > > > > updates to 2024 at least. > > > > > > > > Does it make sense to people? Especially so close to the freeze. I > > > > guess we would need to update Python in Jenkins images mostly and so > > > > on. I am running 3.8.10 locally with all the tests so it really seems > > > > to be just a version bump. > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > > > (1) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-17450
