Re: Dropping Python 3.6 support in 4.1

2022-04-06 Thread Michael Shuler
This. RHEL8 is going to be around for a long while, so I'd say python-3.6 should not be dropped for a long while. 2029 EOL is the date I see on the RHEL8 Planning Guide[0].. I saw the RHEL7/CentOS7 comments earlier and immediately thought about RHEL8 and python-3.6, since I'm working in that O

Re: Dropping Python 3.6 support in 4.1

2022-04-06 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 12:20:49 +0100, you wrote: >I would strongly recommend keeping Python 3.6 compatibility until >2024-06-30 when the CentOS 7 maintenance updates is stopped. I would point out that the RHEL 8.* (as seen on Rocky Linux 8.5) releases come with Python 3.6 and I don't see anything n

Re: Dropping Python 3.6 support in 4.1

2022-04-05 Thread David Capwell
We still mostly support CentOS 6 =D, I say mostly due to the fact I am not aware of any formal supports, just informal patches getting older OSes working again. > On Apr 5, 2022, at 4:33 AM, Stefan Miklosovic > wrote: > > But ... this begs another question to be asked - until when we want to

Re: Dropping Python 3.6 support in 4.1

2022-04-05 Thread Stefan Miklosovic
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 wrote: > > All good then, that's why I am asking! > > Thanks > > On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 13:23, Brandon Williams wrote: > > > > This changes my mind and I agree.

Re: Dropping Python 3.6 support in 4.1

2022-04-05 Thread Stefan Miklosovic
All good then, that's why I am asking! Thanks On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 13:23, Brandon Williams wrote: > > This changes my mind and I agree. > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 6:21 AM Bowen Song wrote: > > > > I'm against this change. > > > > CentOS 7 only has Python up to 3.6 available from the EPEL repos

Re: Dropping Python 3.6 support in 4.1

2022-04-05 Thread Brandon Williams
This changes my mind and I agree. On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 6:21 AM Bowen Song 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 i

Re: Dropping Python 3.6 support in 4.1

2022-04-05 Thread Bowen Song
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 main

Re: Dropping Python 3.6 support in 4.1

2022-04-05 Thread Stefan Miklosovic
"We will have Cassandra running with unsupported Python 3.6 once we release 4.1" - what I meant by that that if somebody has Python 3.6, it will be possible to run cqlsh. There is a check, afaik, which checks what Python a user has and it prevents them from running it if it is something lower. htt

Dropping Python 3.6 support in 4.1

2022-04-05 Thread Stefan Miklosovic
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