[Scons-dev] Should we remove python 3.5 from our CI tests

Jonathon Reinhart jonathon.reinhart at gmail.com
Fri May 25 17:43:24 EDT 2018


No way. Distros (e.g. Debian 9) package Python 3.5.

Are you going to drop Python 2 support too?

It's really not that big of a deal to test each minor version. Plenty
of open source software far less important than SCons does it.

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 5:10 PM, Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:
> On 05/25/2018 02:59 PM, Daniel Moody wrote:
>> Opening discussion to remove 3.5 from the CI tests.
>>
>> Is there any reason we need 3.5 specifically?
>> 3.6 has been out for a while and is pretty stable.
>>
>> It's automated ci so there isn't much effort in keeping it part of the
>> tests, but we should only do it if there is reason.
>>
>> Downside is longer ci iterations and using more resources from the
>> generously free ci platforms.
>
> I'd vote - once 3.7 is out (that likely next month, no?), 3.5 should be
> dropped. Can't test every version.
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