Python 3.6 (and more?) removal

[Jon Turney]

On 01/04/2024 16:22, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 24/03/2024 17:46, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 24/03/2024 17:31, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> On 24/03/2024 15:07, Jon Turney wrote:
>>>> On 24/09/2023 13:32, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I assume you are OK with the removal of python 3.5 (EOL Sept 2020) 
>>>> and 3.6 (EOL Dec 2021)?
>>>>
>>>> (I'm still dealing with cleaning up the final pieces of python27 
>>>> detritus, but these should hopefully be much smaller tasks)
>>>
>>> nothing should depend from 3.5
>>> not sure for 3.6
>>
>> I've automated some of the analysis I was doing for python2 packages 
>> and the results are now available at [1].
>>
>> So yeah, it looks like nothing uses 3.5.
> 
> I've removed some 3.4 detritus, and 3.5
> 
[...]
> 
>> There are just a couple of packages using 3.6, I guess I'll ping the 
>> maintainers about those.
>>
>> [1] https://cygwin.com/packages/reports/python_rebuilds.html
> 
> It looks like the situation with 3.6 is a bit more complex, as some 
> things have a generic python3 dependency, rather than python36 as they 
> should, so that report isn't complete.
> 
> I have some tools to correct those dependencies, so the situation should 
> become clearer after I run those...

Marco,

Well, I managed to reduce that list a bit before I forgot all about 
that, but it still has a fair amount of stuff on it.

Probably time to move on doing the same for later python versions. I 
guess to start with I'll make python36 unavailable for new 
installations. Maybe also 37? and 38? If you think that's a good idea?

That might also help identify if there's anything on that list that's 
actually being used.