I do not have access to publish on PyPI. See: #256 (comment).

I'm not sure if it's related, but I noticed that pypi is missing the wheel file for the recent versions, eg: https://pypi.org/project/validators/0.20.0/#files

If you look at 0.20.0...0.20.1 and 0.20.0...0.21.1, we're dropping support for every version below Python 3.8.0.

Now this is a huge of number users on GitHub alone. I suspect a majority of them are acquainted with 0.20.0 on PyPI (with support for as low as Python 3.4). There's is no way we can push 0.21.1, without breaking some of their workflow.

I have a few things in mind, on how to go about addressing it, but I need to know where the author and other collaborators stand.

If you're a new / returning validators user, wanting to test the latest stable version. Please install it using any one of the following methods, depending upon the tool you're using:

$ pip install 'git+https://github.com/python-validators/validators.git'
$ pdm add 'git+https://github.com/python-validators/validators.git'
$ poetry add 'git+https://github.com/python-validators/validators.git'
$ pipenv install -e 'git+https://github.com/python-validators/validators.git'
$ rye add validators --git 'https://github.com/python-validators/validators.git' && rye sync

Check version:

$ python -c "from validators import __version__; print(__version__)"
0.21.2

Please leave a 👍 if latest version of validators is working for you.

If you look at 0.20.0...0.20.1 and 0.20.0...0.21.1, we're dropping support for every version below Python 3.8.0.

Now this is a huge of number users on GitHub alone. I suspect a majority of them are acquainted with 0.20.0 on PyPI (with support for as low as Python 3.4). There's is no way we can push 0.21.1, without breaking some of their workflow.

Typically all dependencies update and drop the support for previous version of python and this is inevitable. Developers mostly lock their version and this might not be a big issue. These are my thoughts :)

cc: @kvesteri

@joe733 is there any way we can reach out to @kvesteri other than here? I suspect he gets lots of notifications and our mentions would get lost in them.

Published: https://pypi.org/project/validators/