Drop support for Python 3.8 (EOL)

Author: jeanslack

CHANGELOG

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ June 11 2025  Version 1.0.26
 - Documentation and wiki pages updated with new additions and changes.
 - Changed `-metadata` to `metadata:s:a:0` and added `-map 0` trying to fix
   issue #30 .
+- Drop support for Python 3.8 (EOL).
 
 +--------------------------------+
 October 22 2024  Version 1.0.25

README.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # FFcuesplitter - FFmpeg-based audio splitter for CDDA images associated with .cue files .
 
-[![Image](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=python&logo=python&message=3.8%20|%203.9%20|%203.10%20|%203.11%20|%203.12&color=blue)](https://www.python.org/downloads/)
+[![Image](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=python&logo=python&message=3.9%20|%203.10%20|%203.11%20|%203.12&color=blue)](https://www.python.org/downloads/)
 [![Python application](https://github.com/jeanslack/FFcuesplitter/actions/workflows/CI.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/jeanslack/FFcuesplitter/actions/workflows/CI.yml)
 
 FFcuesplitter is a multi-platform CUE sheet splitter entirely based on FFmpeg.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ or from the [command line](https://github.com/jeanslack/FFcuesplitter#using-comm
 
 ## Requires
 
-- Python >=3.8
+- Python >=3.9
 - [deflacue](https://pypi.org/project/deflacue/)
 - [chardet](https://pypi.org/project/chardet/)
 - [tqdm](https://pypi.org/project/tqdm/#description)

pyproject.toml

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 name = "ffcuesplitter"
 dynamic = ["version"]
 readme = "README.md"
-requires-python = ">=3.8"
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
 authors = [
   {name = "Gianluca Pernigotto", email = "[email protected]"}
 ]
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ classifiers = [
     "Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X",
     "Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
-    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",