Closed mbdevpl closed 6 years ago
As can be seen in link below there are some dependency errors when building python-readchar
on these EOL versions. So, it already doesn't work on those versions anyway...
https://travis-ci.org/mbdevpl/python-readchar/builds/339756231
Python 2.6 and 3.3 are also little used.
Here's the pip installs for readchar from PyPI for last month:
python_version | percent | download_count |
---|---|---|
2.7 | 74.32% | 2,191 |
3.6 | 19.40% | 572 |
3.5 | 5.39% | 159 |
3.4 | 0.81% | 24 |
2.6 | 0.07% | 2 |
Source: pypinfo --start-date -40 --end-date -10 --percent --pip --markdown readchar pyversion
Agree.
Supporting outdated Python versions hinders development, because you have to worry about compatibility with obsolete and insecure software.
https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches
As can be seen above, 2.6 was put to rest more than 4 years ago, and 3.3 almost half a year ago. EOL means no updates -- even security updates. Using these Python versions is a really bad idea anyway, so why even test for them?