Drop support for EOL Python 3.7 #2601
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I wonder if this should be kept as a dummy, empty plugins extra, so people can still do pip install pygments[plugins]?
And then remove it in the next major version?
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IMHO, we should keep it. It hardly has any maintenance cost. Moreover, if we remove it, it becomes impossible for a library to support both Pygments 2.17 with plugins on Python 3.7 and Pygments 2.18 (if it declares pygments as dependency, it won't get importlib-metadata on Python 3.7 with Pygments 2.17, and if it declares pygments[plugins], pip gives warnings with Pygments 2.18).
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Thanks, high time to revisit this (and also update the link in our docs ...) @birkenfeld I just checked: RHEL9 ships with 3.9, Ubuntu 22.04 uses 3.10, and Debian Bookworm is Python 3.11. So we could technically drop 3.7 as per our own guidelines (https://pygments.org/docs/contributing/) -- any concerns? |
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Python 3.7 is EOL since 2023-06-27: https://devguide.python.org/versions/
Dropping 3.7 means the https://pypi.org/project/importlib-metadata and
pkg_resourcesfallbacks can be removed.