Time to drop support for Python 3.8 which is EOL?

[chrisinmtown]

In October 2024 python version 3.8 reached its end of life, see
https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-8-is-now-officially-eol/66983

So maybe it's time to drop 3.8 from the connexion test suite? That suite fails for me when I try to run it locally, even tho it is probably not related to EOL status. Here's the error:

py38-min: commands[1]> sed -i -E 's/"(\^|~|>=)([ 0-9])/"==\2/' pyproject.toml
sed: 1: "s/"(\^|~|>=)([ 0-9])/"= ...": \2 not defined in the RE
py38-min: exit 1 (0.01 seconds) /Users/me/git/github/connexion-specfirst> sed -i -E 's/"(\^|~|>=)([ 0-9])/"==\2/' pyproject.toml pid=17217
py38-min: FAIL ✖ in 5.83 seconds

[FelixSchwarz]

Personally, my minimum version is Python 3.9 but I have to admit that I am occasionally annoyed when projects drop support for a certain version of Python just because python.org says it is EOL. To me a Python version is really unsupported when the last supported version of RHEL is EOL. So for me Python 2.7 went EOL last summer when CentOS 7 went EOL. :-)

Also Fedora makes it easy for me by providing a lot of different versions straight from the repo. But that being said, Fedora 42 (to be released in April 2025) will drop Python 3.8 support. So maybe it is time to drop Python 3.8 but I'd only do so if it really makes it easier for the project, not just because python.org says it is EOL.