On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > The fact that Jacob was able to fix > oauth_server.py without (it seemed like) very much work seems to > bear out that opinion.
I think my ability to do it should not be used as evidence of "ease". I knew where to download 3.6, that I should build it with Clang to avoid GCC segfaults, that I should set the rpaths appropriately, and to wrap it all in a virtualenv for Meson to find. And I had to kick Meson to get it to clear its cached Python information, or else the contrib modules refused to build... I suspect the only way most developers are going to want to test this is by running EL8. > This calculus might change if we start to rely more heavily on > Python for build and test infrastructure than we do today. But > I think we can have that conversation when it happens. As long as the need to backport to PG18 doesn't freeze that conversation in place, I suppose. > Anyway, what I propose that we do for now is replace the > installation.sgml text > > The minimum required version is Python 3.2. > > with > > The minimum supported version is Python 3.6.8. > > where I use "supported" advisedly, as in "it might work with > something older, but we don't promise to fix it if not". No objection to that as a first step. I'm still hopeful that Devrim has some evidence in favor of bumping to 3.8 or 3.9. :) Thanks, --Jacob
