chore: drop support for manylinux2010 binary wheels (#2137)

* chore: drop support for `manylinux2010` binary wheels

* chore: allowlist some externals that got a pass in older `tox`

* chore: more CI fighting 🤜

* chore: simply use 3.11 since I'll need to update branch rules anyway

.coveragerc

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [run]
 branch = True
 source = falcon
-omit = falcon/tests*,falcon/cmd/bench.py,falcon/bench*,falcon/vendor/*
+omit = falcon/tests*,falcon/cmd/bench.py,falcon/bench/*,falcon/vendor/*
 
 parallel = True
 

.github/workflows/create-wheels.yaml

@@ -126,24 +126,8 @@ jobs:
           python-version: ${{ steps.linux-py-version.outputs.python-version }}
           architecture: ${{ matrix.architecture }}
 
-      - name: Create wheel for manylinux 2010 and 1
-        # this step uses the image provided by pypa here https://github.com/pypa/manylinux to generate the wheels on linux
-        # the action uses the image for manylinux2010 but can generate also a manylinux1 wheel
-        # change the tag of this image to change the image used
-        uses: RalfG/[email protected]_x86_64
-        # this action generates 3 wheels in dist/. linux manylinux1 and manylinux2010
-        # TODO(vytas): Drop manylinux 2010 support for all wheels:
-        #   https://github.com/pypa/manylinux/issues/1281#
-        if: ${{ matrix.python-version != 'cp311-cp311' }}
-        with:
-          python-versions: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-          build-requirements: "setuptools>=47 wheel>=0.34"
-          # `--no-deps` is used to only generate the wheel for the current library. Redundant in falcon since it has no dependencies
-          pip-wheel-args: "-w ./dist -v --no-deps"
-
       - name: Create wheel for manylinux 2014
-        # as previous step but for manylinux2014
-        uses: RalfG/[email protected]_x86_64
+        uses: RalfG/[email protected]_x86_64
         # this action generates 2 wheels in dist/. linux, manylinux2014
         with:
           # Remove previous original wheel just to be sure it is recreated. Should not be needed
@@ -270,8 +254,8 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Create wheel for manylinux 2014 for arm
         if: ${{ matrix.architecture == 'aarch64' }}
-        uses: RalfG/python-wheels-manylinux-build@v0.5.0-manylinux2014_aarch64
-        # this action generates 2 wheels in dist/. linux manylinux1 and manylinux2010
+        uses: RalfG/python-wheels-manylinux-build@v0.6.0-manylinux2014_aarch64
+        # this action generates 2 wheels in dist/. linux, manylinux2014
         with:
           python-versions: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
           build-requirements: "setuptools>=47 wheel>=0.34"
@@ -293,8 +277,8 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Create wheel for manylinux 2014 for s390x
         if: ${{ matrix.architecture == 's390x' }}
-        uses: RalfG/python-wheels-manylinux-build@v0.5.0-manylinux2014_s390x
-        # this action generates 2 wheels in dist/. linux manylinux1 and manylinux2010
+        uses: RalfG/python-wheels-manylinux-build@v0.6.0-manylinux2014_s390x
+        # this action generates 2 wheels in dist/. linux, manylinux2014
         with:
           python-versions: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
           build-requirements: "setuptools>=47 wheel>=0.34"

.github/workflows/tests.yaml

@@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ jobs:
           - python-version: "3.10"
             os: ubuntu-latest
             toxenv: py310_cython
-          - python-version: "3.11.0-rc - 3.11"
+          - python-version: "3.11"
             os: ubuntu-latest
             toxenv: py311
-          - python-version: "3.11.0-rc - 3.11"
+          - python-version: "3.11"
             os: ubuntu-latest
             toxenv: py311_cython
           - python-version: "3.10"
@@ -81,12 +81,12 @@ jobs:
           - python-version: "3.10"
             os: windows-latest
             toxenv: py310_nocover
-          # These env require 3.8, see tox.ini
+          # These env require 3.8 and 20.04, see tox.ini
           - python-version: "3.8"
-            os: ubuntu-latest
+            os: ubuntu-20.04
             toxenv: py38_smoke
           - python-version: "3.8"
-            os: ubuntu-latest
+            os: ubuntu-20.04
             toxenv: py38_smoke_cython
           - python-version: "3.8"
             os: ubuntu-latest

tox.ini

@@ -358,6 +358,7 @@ commands = falcon-bench []
 
 [testenv:check_vendored]
 basepython = python3.10
+allowlist_externals = {toxinidir}/tools/check-vendored.sh
 deps =
 commands = {toxinidir}/tools/check-vendored.sh
 
@@ -390,15 +391,25 @@ deps = -r{toxinidir}/requirements/docs
         toml
         towncrier
 commands =
-    {toxinidir}/tools/towncrier_draft.py --dry-run
+    python "{toxinidir}/tools/towncrier_draft.py" --dry-run
 
 [testenv:changelog_release]
 deps = -r{toxinidir}/requirements/docs
         toml
         towncrier
 commands =
-    {toxinidir}/tools/add_contributors.py
-    {toxinidir}/tools/towncrier_draft.py
+    python "{toxinidir}/tools/add_contributors.py"
+    python "{toxinidir}/tools/towncrier_draft.py"
+
+# NOTE(kgriffs): Renders the changelog to HTML so that the final result
+#   can be previewed, but then restores the changelog RST document.
+[testenv:changelog_draft]
+deps = -r{toxinidir}/requirements/docs
+        toml
+        towncrier
+commands =
+    python "{toxinidir}/tools/add_contributors.py" --dry-run
+    python "{toxinidir}/tools/towncrier_draft.py" --dry-run
 
 [testenv:dash]
 basepython = python3.10