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Continue testing Python 3.9 on CI but unpin 3.9.16-1
We pinned Python 3.9.16 on Cygwin CI in #1814 (by requiring
3.9.16-1 as the exact version of the `python39` Cygwin package,
along with other supporting changes). We did this to solve a
problem where Python 3.9.18-1, which contained a bug that broke
GitPython CI (and various other software), would be selected.
Version 3.9.18-1 was marked back to being a "test" package shortly
after the bug was reported, and was subsequently removed altogether
from the Cygwin repositories. Because the affected package version
effectively no longer exists, and because this issue is known and
a non-"test" version still affected by it is very unlikely to be
released in the future, this pinning has been decisively
unnecessary for some time, though still not harmful.
This commit undoes the pinning, so that the `python39` package can
be installed at a higher version if one becomes available. This
serves two purposes.
- There is work under way in porting Python 3.12 to Cygwin. To test
this with GitPython (either while it is in development or later),
it will be useful to turn the Cygwin test job into a matrix job
definition, generating two jobs, one for Python 3.9 and one for
Python 3.12. Since 3.12 will probably not benefit from pinning,
dropping pinning simplifies this.
- If the port of Python 3.12 to Cygwin is successful, it might
lead to a solution to the but that currently keeps 3.9.18 from
being made available for Cygwin. In that case, another 3.9.18-*
Cygwin package would be released, which we would want to use.
Although this is uncertain, the change is a simplification, so I
think it is reasonable to do now.
Note that the pinning being undone here only affects the
distinction between different 3.9.* versions. `python39` and
`python312` are different Cygwin packages altogether, with
correspondingly different `python39-*` and `python312-*` associated
packages; this is not unpinning Python 3.9 in a way that would
cause Python 3.12 to be selected instead of it.
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