Re: [sage-devel] Re: policy on minimal python supported

['Reimundo Heluani' via sage-devel]

On August 30, 2020 9:25:39 AM GMT-03:00, Samuel Lelievre 
<samuel.lelie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>2020-08-30 10:05:46 UTC+2, Reimundo Heluani:
>>
>> I want to add a parallel computation ticket and I was
>> wondering if I could use multiprocessing.parent_process()
>> which is only available starting with 3.8.
>
>It might be possible to provide some functionality
>which only works if the current Python is >= 3.8,
>and otherwise either falls back to non-parallel
>or raises an error.
>
>
>2020-08-30 10:05:46 UTC+2, Reimundo Heluani:
>>
>> What's the minimal Python version that Sage has to accept,
>> and more importantly where do I track this?
>
>Currently we aim to support Python 3.6 to 3.8.
>
>Using Sage Trac's query engine to look for all tickets
>with "python" in the ticket summary,
>
>  https://trac.sagemath.org/query?order=id&desc=1&summary=~python
>
>we can find some relevant tickets.
>
>One of them especially is about adopting a clear policy
>in that regard:
>
>- Adopt the “time window-based” policy
>  for support of Python versions from NEP 29
>  https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/30384
>

Thanks that's exactly what I needed.

R
>See also:
>
>- Support minimal system Python version 3.6 (for venv)
>  https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/29033
>
>  merged in Sage 9.2.beta2, as you can find out
>  by visiting sage-release and putting the ticket number,
>  here 29033, in the search field.
>
>More tips for finding out in which commit or in which
>version some change happened were recently discussed
>on sage-devel:
>
>  https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-devel/7pq6iJH45KU/discussion
>
>Support for Python 3.9 is discussed at:
>
>- Support Python 3.9
>  https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/30184

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