Le 30/05/2024 à 17:58, José Matos a écrit :
In order to pay the technical debt that is the Python 2 support I
intend to start removing its support.
The first step is to change the build support to ignore Python 2.
Since that is code that, usually, I run away from I would like to get
your feedback before committing it. Because if this breaks the package
does not build and that is a huge problem. :-)
@Jean-Marc is the code OK for the autotools?
I'd suggest AM_PATH_PYTHON now that we do not have 2 versions anymore.
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Python.html
There is another change that deserves to be discussed, in the process I
have bumped the minimum python version to be 3.10.
Assuming that the next development cycle takes 2.5 years this will be a
version that will be 5 years old by then and so it should be widely
available.
I am doubtful about this one. I would think some Ubuntu LTS versions
without 3.10 will still be supported.
In this particular case the reason to jump directly to 3.10 is the
structural pattern matching:
https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.10.html#pep-634-structural-pattern-matching
FWIW notice that this is a lot more powerful than the usual C/C++
switch.
I think that some of our code, like lyx2lyx, can take direct advantage
of this feature.
I get the point.
JMarc
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