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workhorsy / py-cpuinfo

A module for getting CPU info with pure Python
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Officially drop support for Python 2 #177

Closed workhorsy closed 2 years ago

workhorsy commented 2 years ago

Reasons to drop 2:

  1. It is an absolute nightmare to have to test all the different versions (32bit/64bit, python2/python3, windows/linux/osx/bsd/solaris/haiku). By removing python 2 support, it greatly reduces the number of things to test.
  2. It has been 16 years since Python 3 was announced. People have had enough time to migrate.
  3. Python 2 support officially ended in 2021.
  4. We are starting to get deprecation warnings.
  5. We can start using new features of 3
  6. We will only have to support 3.7 and up, because Python only supports 5 years of old versions now
  7. People can still use py-cpuinfo version 8.0 on python 2

Reasons to keep 2:

  1. According to PyPi about 1% to 3% of users still use 2.7 for py-cpuinfo: https://pypistats.org/packages/py-cpuinfo
workhorsy commented 2 years ago

Fixed in #179