Do we want to email pants-devel about 2.2 requirin...
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hundreds-father-404
11/13/2020, 10:37 PMDo we want to email pants-devel about 2.2 requiring Python 3.7 or 3.8 to run? Or the deprecation warning in 2.1 is adequate?
hundreds-father-404
11/14/2020, 12:14 AMbump @happy-kitchen-89482 @witty-crayon-22786
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happy-kitchen-89482
11/14/2020, 12:14 AMIt's worth calling out explicitly
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hundreds-father-404
11/14/2020, 12:15 AMdo we offer to delay until 2.3 if it poses a substantial barrier? if someone asks for that, we’ll end up needing to do a 2.1.1 release and revert some PRs landed in master
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witty-crayon-22786
11/14/2020, 12:17 AMworth offering probably
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hundreds-father-404
11/14/2020, 12:17 AMk, I’ll wait to merge https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/11175 until Tuesday then
hundreds-father-404
11/14/2020, 12:26 AMAny feedback before I send?
title: PSA: Pants 2.2 will require Python 3.7 or 3.8 to run
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Hello,
We are planning for Pants 2.1 to be the last release that can be run with a Python 3.6 interpreter. This means that you will need a 3.7 or 3.8 interpreter discoverable on your machine/CI to run Pants moving forward.
You will also need to update your `./pants` script by running `curl -L -o ./pants <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pantsbuild/setup/2f079cbe4fc6a1d9d87decba51f19d7689aee69e/pants>`.
This does not impact what interpreter your own code runs with, outside of ensuring any Pants plugin code will work with Python 3.7+.
Please let us know if this will be a burden for you, and we can delay this change.
Thanks,
Eric Arellano
(Why do this? It makes it easier for us to add support for running Pants on more platforms like ARM.)👍 2