drop support for python 3.7

Author: dlech

.github/workflows/publish.yaml

@@ -14,8 +14,6 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         build:
-        - cp37-win_amd64
-        - cp37-win32
         - cp38-win_amd64
         - cp38-win32
         - cp39-win_amd64

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@
 - Updated CppWinRT to v2.0.230706.1.
 - Updated PyWinRT to [v1.0.0-beta.10](https://github.com/pywinrt/pywinrt/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta.10).
 
+### Removed
+- Dropped support for Python 3.7.
+
 ## [v1.0.0b9] - 2023-04-15
 
 ### Added

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-- [Python](https://www.python.org/downloads/) >= 3.7
+- [Python](https://www.python.org/downloads/) >= 3.8
 - [Nuget](https://www.nuget.org/downloads)
 
 ## Get the code

setup.py

@@ -19,15 +19,14 @@
             'Environment :: Win32 (MS Windows)',
             'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
             'Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows :: Windows 10',
-            'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7',
             'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8',
             'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9',
             'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10',
             'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11',
             'Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython',
             'Topic :: System :: Operating System',
         ],
-    python_requires=">=3.7",
+    python_requires=">=3.8",
     packages=find_namespace_packages(where=("pywinrt")),
     package_dir={"": "pywinrt"}, 
     # recursive glob (**) doesn't seem to work here