From d5a3f2d99a4bc43a986ad5c2b5f45a493b4eaf0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maksim Rakitin <mrakitin@bnl.gov>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 12:46:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Python 3.9 as a minimum supported version

---
 .github/workflows/testing.yml | 2 +-
 setup.py                      | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/testing.yml b/.github/workflows/testing.yml
index ee95bbe..7060e06 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/testing.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/testing.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         host-os: ["ubuntu-latest", "macos-latest", "windows-latest"]
-        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]
+        python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11"]
       fail-fast: false
 
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.host-os }}
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2b246d3..8946a06 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 # NOTE: This file must remain Python 2 compatible for the foreseeable future,
 # to ensure that we error out properly for people with outdated setuptools
 # and/or pip.
-min_version = (3, 7)
+min_version = (3, 9)
 if sys.version_info < min_version:
     error = """
 smi_analysis does not support Python {0}.{1}.