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Pure python implementation of the FRC NetworkTables protocol
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Drop Python < 3.5 support #54

Closed auscompgeek closed 5 years ago

auscompgeek commented 6 years ago

I would like to propose we drop support for Python 3.3 in 2019.

Python 3.3 is already EOL (as of September 2017), and is not distributed by major, currently supported GNU/Linux distros, so I don't anticipate this being a problem for any team.

We've already announced on CD that pynetworktables will continue to support Python 3.3 for this year, so I guess we're keeping it this way. I wouldn't imagine we'd have many more changes this year, so this probably won't be much of a problem for us anyway.

virtuald commented 6 years ago

People use pynetworktables on weird embedded devices that may not have been updated in forever. I don't think we should drop support until there's a good reason to -- and it'll probably be dropped around the same time as Python 2.7 support...

auscompgeek commented 6 years ago

It'd be good to see the PyPI download stats, I guess.

virtuald commented 6 years ago

FWIW, it seems that 12 people on CD would like to drop Python 2 support. https://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1766160

auscompgeek commented 6 years ago

From what I can tell, upstream ntcore is being rearchitected to use an event loop.

We've also been talking about potentially internally using asyncio instead of threads, hopefully improving performance in the process. If we were to go down that path, we'd likely want to be able to use async/await syntax, which would mean dropping support for all Python versions before 3.5.

If anyone cares about Python 3.4 support (or if you really care about Python 3.3), please speak up now.

virtuald commented 5 years ago

We will no longer support python < 3.5 in 2019.