Re: [DISCUSS] Deprecating/dropping support for Python 3.8

2025-05-28 Thread Mika Naylor
Thank you for the feedback and guidance everyone :) I'll open a PR to drop Python 3.8 support. Kind regards, Mika

Re: [DISCUSS] Deprecating/dropping support for Python 3.8

2025-05-28 Thread Ferenc Csaky
Solid +1 for dropping instead of deprecate. Best, Ferenc On Wednesday, May 28th, 2025 at 07:12, Gabor Somogyi wrote: > > > Hi Mika, > > +1 to drop and not just deprecate from my side. > > BR, > G > > > On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM Dian Fu dian0511...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Hi Mika,

Re: [DISCUSS] Deprecating/dropping support for Python 3.8

2025-05-27 Thread Gabor Somogyi
Hi Mika, +1 to drop and not just deprecate from my side. BR, G On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM Dian Fu wrote: > Hi Mika, > > Thanks for bringing up this discussion. > > Regarding dropping support of Python 3.8: +1 for this. Since we will > add support for Python 3.12 in Flink 2.1[1], this mea

Re: [DISCUSS] Deprecating/dropping support for Python 3.8

2025-05-27 Thread Dian Fu
Hi Mika, Thanks for bringing up this discussion. Regarding dropping support of Python 3.8: +1 for this. Since we will add support for Python 3.12 in Flink 2.1[1], this means we need to maintain 5 Python versions if we still support Python 3.8. Considering that 3.8 is already EOL and the issue you

Re: [DISCUSS] Deprecating/dropping support for Python 3.8

2025-05-27 Thread Xingbo Huang
Hi Mika, Thank you very much for initiating this discussion. We did not have very strict rules for deprecating Python versions before, but we usually chose to start deprecation about a year after EOF and stop supporting the Python version in the next Flink version. The reason why we started deprec

RE: [DISCUSS] Deprecating/dropping support for Python 3.8

2025-05-27 Thread Cole Bailey
+1 I'd support dropping EOL python versions from the next / latest flink version. Users who end up on older python versions will need to spend time to update their flink versions and can always continue using older versions until they are ready to upgrade. Dropping old versions on the master branch

[DISCUSS] Deprecating/dropping support for Python 3.8

2025-05-26 Thread Mika Naylor
Hi all, I recently wanted to look into using the new dependency groups mechanism for centralising testing/development requirements in one place in a consistent format, rather than scattered in various places. I opened FLINK-37775 to reflect this, but had to drop it as it's only a feature in new