[Biopython] Dropping Python 3.7, was: Planning Biopython 1.82

[Peter Cock]

Related to this, I would like to at least deprecate support for Python 3.7
which still receives security updates until June 2023:

https://devguide.python.org/versions/

i.e. Print a warning to stderr during installation like this old example:

https://github.com/biopython/biopython/commit/654309121f2cc0c01dfff73cd3dec3a435d76fc2

But it would be simpler to just drop support for Python 3.7 if there are
no objections? Note NumPy already did this with numpy 1.24.0 which
was released December 2022.

Peter

On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 10:30 AM Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Thank you to João Rodrigues for handling the Biopython 1.81 release,
> which helped improve our documentation for this process:
>
> https://biopython.org/wiki/Building_a_release
>
> Are there any open pull requests our community would particularly
> like to see merged ready for the next release, or major issues which
> need resolving?
>
> Would any of our regular contributors like manage the release?
> João again perhaps?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Peter
>
> P.S.
>
> One of the main pain points remains building the documentation,
> which requires latex (easy enough but a large dependency) and also
> hevea for HTML (not as easy to install as it could be). I have not yet
> been able to dedicate more time to finish the planned conversion
> from LaTeX and these tools to RST and Sphinx, but perhaps will be
> able to work on this during the BOSC 2023 CoFest?
>
> Separately we could look at automatically uploading the wheels to PyPI.