cc @ericsnowcurrently @mdboom

Option A

• Do not maintain Python 3.6 CI
• Downgrade requires-python into Python 3.6

Option B

• Maintain requires-python as Python 3.7
• Drop support Python 3.6 at pyperformance too

Option C

• Maintain Python 3.6 CI
• Downgrade requires-python into Python 3.6

The CI failed with:

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement setuptools>=61

Is it possible to use older setuptools on Python <= 3.6?

pyproject.toml contains:

[build-system]
requires = ["setuptools >= 61"]
build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"

Why is version 61 required?

Why is version 61 required?

I think that we can downgrade into 59

@vstinner @ericsnowcurrently @mdboom

There looks some issue between the new package meta system with setuptools and Python 3.6
If we still need to support Python 3.6, I would like to suggest rollback the package build system into setup.py.

After thinking about it, I wouldn't worry about supporting 3.6.

So pyperformance doesn't use Python 3.7 anymore?

@vstinner we merged python/pyperformance#249, so no support only for 3.6 not 3.7