On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 09:42:51AM +0000, Robin Becker wrote:
> 
> I notice one of the changes for 2.0rc1 is to drop support for Python
> 3.4; it seems a bit premature to do that since the latest release
> was in August and there's a planned release in 2019. Is there
> something in manylinux2010 that will prevent Python 3.4 from
> running?

Hi Robin,

To clarify, dropping 3.4 support is just for the auditwheel tool itself:
Python 3.4 wheels will still be supported. Inside the manylinux image,
we run auditwheel with Python 3.6.[1] auditwheel is a Python 3-only
tool, but this does not prevent us from building wheels for Python 2.7
:)

This change is intended to save some time in CI so that we no longer
need to test against Python 3.4 as I introduce support for Python 3.7.
While Python 3.4 is still being maintained, it is nearly 5 years old now
and has only received security fixes since August 2017.[2] While I am
dropping support, I do not believe any changes have been made
intentionally that would cause auditwheel to become Python 3.4
incompatible.

Let me know if this is still a source of concern.

Cheers,

- e


[1]: 
https://github.com/pypa/manylinux/blob/c24c2e517c57d094616eae8d2e72cb230c9051b6/docker/build_scripts/build.sh#L125-L126
[2]: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-347/

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