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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-python <gentoo-python@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-python] Python 3.4 is about to EOL in <2 months
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:38:19
Message-Id: 0ccb46b61cc1eb3bee6f4e15c5f5e76325b7c837.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-python] Python 3.4 is about to EOL in <2 months by "Michał Górny"
1 On Thu, 2019-01-24 at 08:48 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > Hi, everyone.
3 >
4 > Just a quick reminder that Python 3.4 is reaching its end-of-life.
5 > The upstream EOL is set on 2019-03-16 [1], and we will also finally kill
6 > its support for real near that time.
7 >
8 > Please also note that a growing number of projects has dropped Python
9 > 3.4 support already and requires at least 3.5. Many of us (including
10 > myself) can no longer test 3.4 without getting into ugly downgrades or
11 > dependency conflicts.
12 >
13 > If you are still using Python 3.4 with Gentoo packages, please consider
14 > switching to a newer version (or a local solution such as virtualenv)
15 > ASAP.
16 >
17 > [1]:https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches
18
19 And so it has reached end-of-life. Additionally, the last upstream
20 release (3.4.10) does not fix openssl-1.1+ build failures.
21
22 I'm going to start working on disabling the support and last riting
23 python-3.4 (due to openssl build failures) today.
24
25 --
26 Best regards,
27 Michał Górny

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