Update getting_started.rst: Python 3.6 is no longer supported
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I actually think we'll want to wait to do this until the "Bump Meta" PR is opened too, mostly because the current version of the qiskit package still supports Python 3.6. Once we release the next qiskit-terra version that will raise the minimum required python version to 3.7, but everything in (also while the PR is opened automatically, I manually update the Python version and other package metadata as part of the PR before merging it) |
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With #1439 having been merged, I thought that now might be the right time for this change. But yeah, no problem from my perspective with waiting. EDIT: I think I understand now: those instructions are not just about building from source but rather building the latest development version from source, since they start with a |
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qiskit-terra 0.20.0 has been released now so once #1456 merges we can rebase this and merge it. |
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Summary
As discussed at Qiskit/qiskit#7295, the next release of Qiskit will no longer support Python 3.6. This PR updates the "getting started" documentation accordingly.
Details and comments
There are still two lines that refer to Python 3.6 in
setup.py, but I did not remove them, as I expected this to be updated automatically by qiskit-bot in the forthcoming "Bump Meta" PR (see e.g. #1063).