feat: add ubuntu-24.04 (#269)

* feat: add ubuntu-24.04

* chore: drop support for Python 2.x builds

Author: mayeut

.github/workflows/build-python-packages.yml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ on:
       PLATFORMS:
         description: 'Platforms for execution in "os" or "os_arch" format (arch is "x64" by default)'
         required: true
-        default: 'ubuntu-20.04,ubuntu-22.04,macos-11_x64,macos-11_arm64,windows-2019_x64,windows-2019_x86'
+        default: 'ubuntu-20.04,ubuntu-22.04,ubuntu-24.04,macos-11_x64,macos-11_arm64,windows-2019_x64,windows-2019_x86'
   pull_request:
     paths-ignore:
     - 'versions-manifest.json'
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Generate execution matrix
         id: generate-matrix
         run: |
-          [String[]]$configurations = "${{ inputs.platforms || 'ubuntu-20.04,ubuntu-22.04,macos-11,macos-11_arm64,windows-2019_x64,windows-2019_x86' }}".Split(",").Trim()
+          [String[]]$configurations = "${{ inputs.platforms || 'ubuntu-20.04,ubuntu-22.04,ubuntu-24.04,macos-11,macos-11_arm64,windows-2019_x64,windows-2019_x86' }}".Split(",").Trim()
           $matrix = @()
 
           foreach ($configuration in $configurations) {

builders/ubuntu-python-builder.psm1

@@ -37,16 +37,9 @@ class UbuntuPythonBuilder : NixPythonBuilder {
         $configureString += " --enable-shared"
         $configureString += " --enable-optimizations"
 
-        ### Compile with ucs4 for Python 2.x. On 3.x, ucs4 is enabled by default
-        if ($this.Version -lt "3.0.0") {
-            $configureString += " --enable-unicode=ucs4"
-        }
-
-        ### Compile with support of loadable sqlite extensions. Unavailable for Python 2.*
+        ### Compile with support of loadable sqlite extensions.
         ### Link to documentation (https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html#sqlite3.Connection.enable_load_extension)
-        if ($this.Version -ge "3.2.0") {
-            $configureString += " --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions"
-        }
+        $configureString += " --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions"
 
         Write-Host "The passed configure options are: "
         Write-Host $configureString
@@ -60,17 +53,13 @@ class UbuntuPythonBuilder : NixPythonBuilder {
         Prepare system environment by installing dependencies and required packages.
         #>
 
-        if (($this.Version -gt "3.0.0") -and ($this.Version -lt "3.5.3")) {
-            Write-Host "Python3 versions lower than 3.5.3 are not supported"
+        if ($this.Version -lt "3.5.3") {
+            Write-Host "Python versions lower than 3.5.3 are not supported"
             exit 1
         }
 
         ### Compile with tkinter support
-        if ($this.Version -gt "3.0.0") {
-            $tkinterInstallString = "sudo apt-get install -y --allow-downgrades python3-tk tk-dev"
-        } else {
-            $tkinterInstallString = "sudo apt install -y python-tk tk-dev"
-        }
+        $tkinterInstallString = "sudo apt-get install -y --allow-downgrades python3-tk tk-dev"
 
         Execute-Command -Command "sudo apt-get update"
         Execute-Command -Command $tkinterInstallString
@@ -85,7 +74,8 @@ class UbuntuPythonBuilder : NixPythonBuilder {
             "libsqlite3-dev",
             "libncursesw5-dev",
             "libreadline-dev",
-            "libgdbm-dev"
+            "libgdbm-dev",
+            "liblzma-dev"
         ) | ForEach-Object {
             Execute-Command -Command "sudo apt install -y $_"
         }