Python version support policy #3
Description
As a developer I would like to clarify & discuss which python versions we should support.
Currently we only support 3.11 (and even specify a patch version)
Options
- What we currently do: just one version, but that's not great for sharing with other groups and limits the benefit that we get from packaging genie_python
- "Industry standard" for scientific python is SPEC00 which typically covers 3 recent python versions
- If we need to support old(er) linux distributions e.g. RHEL, that may mean we need to support quite old python versions
- Something else.
Acceptance criteria
Discuss options (e.g. in teams technical channel), and then actually make genie_python follow it & run at least the unit tests against those versions.
Notes
Ask mantid, idaas etc what their python version support policy is for comparison