Python 3.10 update.

[dumol]

Scope

Update Python.

Changes

Use latest Python 3.10. (Python 3.11 builds fail because of python/cpython#101668.)

The libedit patch was removed, as it's not worth porting it to apply to 3.10 sources only for building on macOS…

Drive-by changes:

• Removed 32bit Windows build.
• Added an arm64 macOS build.
• Build the Windows/macOS packages on whatever GitHub supports as -latest (currently Windows Server 2022 and macOS 12).
• Build the generic Linux package on Amazon 2 with glibc 2.26.
• Updated the other libs to build, where applicable: SQLite, libffi, xz.
• Updated cryptography to newly-released version 40.0.1.
• Build and check for PyNaCl.
• Check for cffi too.
• Collect and check for MarkupSafe, charset-normalizer, and pywin32 (the latter only on Windows).

Testing

Review changes and the automated test results.

Try the resulting test packages, e.g. https://bin.chevah.com:20443/testing/3.10.11.5cdf347/

[dumol]

Another thing that should be done for py3.10

we no longer need the -3 check

Done through f2a18c5.

[dumol]

Went through all the comments once more, let me know if I missed something before approving this. Thanks!

[dumol]

For the record, I've also tried building the generic Linux package on Amazon Linux 1 (aka 2018.03), which has the same glibc version as RHEL 7. And which has gcc 7.2 available as an extra package.

The package builds with minimal changes, but it has the same issues as on CentOS 7, it links against /lib64/libfreebl3.so, which belongs to an irremovable system package.

[adiroiban]

I am leaving a comment here, but most probably needs to be done in a separate ticket.

For the Windows version, besides the lib/python310.zip we also need to distribute the source code.

Without the source code, the python works, but debugging is hard.

So for Windows, besides the current embeddable version, we need to find a way to also get the source code avaiable inside the build folder

[dumol]

So for Windows, besides the current embeddable version, we need to find a way to also get the source code avaiable inside the build folder

Sure, no problem, I'll fill in a new ticket… But what sources you want included? The win package of python-package only has some include files in /python2.7-win-x64/lib/include/… You want more? All the source code of Python? Only some parts of it?

What kind of debugging you have in mind? Debugging Python binaries?

[dumol]

For the record, merged into master as discussed on #chevah last week on Friday.