+1 It makes sense to me.
Thanks ! Regards JB On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM Fokko Driesprong <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I wanted to check if there are any objections to dropping Python 3.9 support. > Dropping means that we won't publish 3.9 wheels anymore. > > The two main reasons to do this: > > Reduce the CI cost when we add 3.13 > Downstream projects like numpy and ray often support three Python versions. > If we want to support more, we have to have conditional dependencies based on > the Python version. This makes Poetry very slow, as the work effectively > doubles. > > Python 3.9 is marked as EoL next week. Around 5% of the downloads are Python > 3.9. But as Kevin pointed out, most of that will probably be our CI. > > Let us know if there are any objections! > > Kind regards, > Fokko >
