Drop support for Python 3.8?

Open tomasr8 opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Per https://devguide.python.org/versions/, Python 3.8 is now EOL.

Unless there is a specific reason to keep it around I think we should drop it.

From what I've seen when 3.7 was dropped, the deprecation could be announced in the next (2.17) release and removed in 2.18.

Nov 18 '24 18:11 tomasr8

We can consider it, but I'd rather still keep supporting it for a little longer.

According to https://pypistats.org/packages/babel some 6-10% of Babel downloads (all package versions, would need to look at the source BigTable data for a per-package-version breakdown) come from Python 3.8...

Nov 19 '24 13:11 akx

Wow that's higher than I would think! But yeah I agree, let's wait a bit

Nov 19 '24 14:11 tomasr8