Re: [gentoo-python] Python 3.4 is about to EOL in <2 months

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2019-01-24 at 08:48 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
> 
> Just a quick reminder that Python 3.4 is reaching its end-of-life.
> The upstream EOL is set on 2019-03-16 [1], and we will also finally kill
> its support for real near that time.
> 
> Please also note that a growing number of projects has dropped Python
> 3.4 support already and requires at least 3.5.  Many of us (including
> myself) can no longer test 3.4 without getting into ugly downgrades or
> dependency conflicts.
> 
> If you are still using Python 3.4 with Gentoo packages, please consider
> switching to a newer version (or a local solution such as virtualenv)
> ASAP.
> 
> [1]:https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches

And so it has reached end-of-life.  Additionally, the last upstream
release (3.4.10) does not fix openssl-1.1+ build failures.

I'm going to start working on disabling the support and last riting
python-3.4 (due to openssl build failures) today.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny


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