[FEATURE] Remove upper bound on Requires-Python

[george-zubrienko]

Description

Follow-up from the discussion here

Possible solution

Update Python version constraints to ^3.7 from >=3.7, <3.13

Alternatives

N/A

Context

Good morning read

[george-zubrienko]

FYI @cdce8p

[george-zubrienko]

BTW, this looks a bit alarming to me - lots of time spend on dependency install

[cdce8p]

BTW, this looks a bit alarming to me - lots of time spend on dependency install

This is at least somewhat to be expected. There are a lot of packages which don't publish wheels for 3.12 just yet. So poetry / pip needs to build those for each dependency install. It could probably be cached though if you wanted to. https://github.com/actions/setup-python/blob/main/docs/advanced-usage.md#caching-packages

[george-zubrienko]

This is at least somewhat to be expected. There are a lot of packages which don't publish wheels for 3.12 just yet. So poetry / pip needs to build those for each dependency install. It could probably be cached though if you wanted to.

Makes sense! I was worried first it was the actual test suite. As a part of this, should we also consider bumping python min to 3.8? Or maybe at least remove test run for 3.7?

[george-zubrienko]

Reference download data:

[george-zubrienko]

[george-zubrienko]

TLDR: Py3.7 ~25k downloads/day - look state to me (~4% of daily downloads) Py3.8-3.10 >50k/day Py3.11 ~25k /day - growing

https://pypistats.org/packages/dataclasses-json

[george-zubrienko]

@lidatong when you have time, your opinion would help a lot here :)