From c624ffe33aeff15aa07f7020805d975162854678 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Maier <maiera@de.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2023 12:53:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Temporarily dropped support for Python 3.5-3.7

This is needed as long as the prometheus-client package is installed
from the git repo directly (since that version requires Python>=3.8).

Signed-off-by: Andreas Maier <maiera@de.ibm.com>
---
 .github/workflows/test.yml | 68 ++++----------------------------------
 docs/intro.rst             |  2 +-
 setup.py                   |  5 +--
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index 2188d59b..703be782 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -35,52 +35,8 @@ jobs:
         if [[ "${{ github.event_name }}" == "schedule" || "${{ github.head_ref }}" =~ ^release_ ]]; then \
           echo "matrix={ \
             \"os\": [ \"ubuntu-latest\", \"macos-latest\", \"windows-latest\" ], \
-            \"python-version\": [ \"3.5\", \"3.6\", \"3.7\", \"3.8\", \"3.9\", \"3.10\", \"3.11\" ], \
-            \"package_level\": [ \"minimum\", \"latest\" ], \
-            \"exclude\": [ \
-              { \
-                \"os\": \"ubuntu-latest\", \
-                \"python-version\": \"3.5\", \
-                \"package_level\": \"minimum\" \
-              }, \
-              { \
-                \"os\": \"ubuntu-latest\", \
-                \"python-version\": \"3.5\", \
-                \"package_level\": \"latest\" \
-              }, \
-              { \
-                \"os\": \"ubuntu-latest\", \
-                \"python-version\": \"3.6\", \
-                \"package_level\": \"minimum\" \
-              }, \
-              { \
-                \"os\": \"ubuntu-latest\", \
-                \"python-version\": \"3.6\", \
-                \"package_level\": \"latest\" \
-              } \
-            ], \
-            \"include\": [ \
-              { \
-                \"os\": \"ubuntu-20.04\", \
-                \"python-version\": \"3.5\", \
-                \"package_level\": \"minimum\" \
-              }, \
-              { \
-                \"os\": \"ubuntu-20.04\", \
-                \"python-version\": \"3.5\", \
-                \"package_level\": \"latest\" \
-              }, \
-              { \
-                \"os\": \"ubuntu-20.04\", \
-                \"python-version\": \"3.6\", \
-                \"package_level\": \"minimum\" \
-              }, \
-              { \
-                \"os\": \"ubuntu-20.04\", \
-                \"python-version\": \"3.6\", \
-                \"package_level\": \"latest\" \
-              } \
-            ] \
+            \"python-version\": [ \"3.8\", \"3.9\", \"3.10\", \"3.11\" ], \
+            \"package_level\": [ \"minimum\", \"latest\" ] \
           }" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT; \
         else \
           echo "matrix={ \
@@ -89,23 +45,13 @@ jobs:
             \"package_level\": [ \"minimum\", \"latest\" ], \
             \"include\": [ \
               { \
-                \"os\": \"ubuntu-20.04\", \
-                \"python-version\": \"3.5\", \
-                \"package_level\": \"minimum\" \
-              }, \
-              { \
-                \"os\": \"ubuntu-20.04\", \
-                \"python-version\": \"3.5\", \
-                \"package_level\": \"latest\" \
-              }, \
-              { \
-                \"os\": \"ubuntu-20.04\", \
-                \"python-version\": \"3.6\", \
+                \"os\": \"ubuntu-latest\", \
+                \"python-version\": \"3.8\", \
                 \"package_level\": \"minimum\" \
               }, \
               { \
-                \"os\": \"macos-latest\", \
-                \"python-version\": \"3.5\", \
+                \"os\": \"ubuntu-latest\", \
+                \"python-version\": \"3.8\", \
                 \"package_level\": \"latest\" \
               }, \
               { \
@@ -115,7 +61,7 @@ jobs:
               }, \
               { \
                 \"os\": \"windows-latest\", \
-                \"python-version\": \"3.5\", \
+                \"python-version\": \"3.8\", \
                 \"package_level\": \"latest\" \
               }, \
               { \
diff --git a/docs/intro.rst b/docs/intro.rst
index 43ee71cf..01063471 100644
--- a/docs/intro.rst
+++ b/docs/intro.rst
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Supported environments
 ----------------------
 
 * Operating systems: Linux, macOS, Windows
-* Python versions: 3.5 and higher
+* Python versions: 3.8 and higher
 * HMC versions: 2.11.1 and higher
 
 Quickstart
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 89c18906..f7ac555e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ def read_file(a_file):
 
     # Keep these Python versions in sync with:
     # - Section "Supported environments" in docs/intro.rst
-    python_requires='>=3.5',
+    python_requires='>=3.8',
     classifiers=[
         'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
         'Environment :: Console',
@@ -130,9 +130,6 @@ def read_file(a_file):
         'License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License',
         'Operating System :: OS Independent',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10',