[jira] [Comment Edited] (CASSANDRA-19467) Deprecate Python 3.7 and earlier, but allow cqlsh to run with Python 3.6+

["Caleb Rackliffe (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Caleb Rackliffe edited comment on CASSANDRA-19467 at 3/16/24 12:35 AM:
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This is making a lot of things complain (warning messages, etc.) if I deprecate 3.8 as well. Going to just stop at 3.7 for now...


was (Author: maedhroz):
This is going to make a lot of things complain if I deprecate 3.8 as well. Going to just stop at 3.7 for now...

> Deprecate Python 3.7 and earlier, but allow cqlsh to run with Python 3.6+
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-19467
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-19467
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: Tool/cqlsh
>            Reporter: Caleb Rackliffe
>            Assignee: Caleb Rackliffe
>            Priority: Normal
>             Fix For: 5.0-rc, 5.1
>
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> In 4.0, we introduced Python 3.6 support. In CASSANDRA-19245, for the 5.0 release, we dropped Python 3.6 and 3.7 support since Python 3.8 was the minimum supported version for version 3.29.0 of the Python driver, which we needed to support vectors. Unfortunately, that may break existing users of RHEL 7, which natively only supports Python 3.6.
> We should deprecate Python 3.6-3.7 (which are all either EOL or will be soon) and mention this in NEWS.txt/appropriate warnings at {{cqlsh}} startup, but we don't need to have cqlsh refuse to start entirely with 3.6-3.7 until our 6.0 release.



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