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@@ -4,17 +4,27 @@ dbus Python Bindings 1.3.0 (UNRELEASED) Dependencies: • Python 3, version 3.5 or later, is required. - A security-supported version (currently 3.6 or later) is recommended. + An upstream-supported version (currently 3.7 or later) is strongly + recommended, and a future version of dbus-python is likely to require + Python 3.7 or later. Python 2 is no longer supported. -• Installing from source code can be done with either Autotools or Meson. -• Installing from PyPI using pip still relies on Autotools for now. + +• Installing from source code using Meson requires Python 3.5 or later + and Meson 0.56.2 or later. This is now the recommended build system. + +• Installing from source code using Autotools requires Python 3.5 or later. + The Autotools build system is likely to be removed in a future version. + +• Installing from PyPI using pip or from source code via setup.py + requires Python 3.7 or later, Meson 0.60.3 or later, meson-python 0.8.1 + or later, and their dependencies (ninja, patchelf, setuptools, wheel). API changes: • dbus.gobject_service, dbus.types.UTF8String and the utf8_strings keyword argument were only usable with Python 2, and therefore have been removed, along with the rest of the special cases for Python 2. - (dbus-python!115; Simon McVittie) + (dbus-python!15; Simon McVittie) Enhancements: |