+1 On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM Alex Stephen <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1 > > Python 3.9 is EOL. We shouldn't be encouraging users to stay on EOL > versions of Python. > > This can be our community's contribution towards the Python ecosystem's > migration off 3.9. It's great to help out our fellow OSS projects! > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 8:48 AM Honah J. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> +1 to remove 3.9 support. Thanks for driving this! >> >> Best regards, >> Jonas (Honah) >> >> On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> +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 >>> > >>> >>
