Add back CI for Python 3.6 by using pyenv#5064
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As it isn't available with the setup-python action use `pyenv` to install it. This allows using any version we need.
Known issue when compiling older (3.6, 3.7) Pythons on recent OS (likely OpenSSL 3 related). Use clang as suggested in pyenv/pyenv#2239 (comment)
When setting file attributes after copying with `os.chmod` (internally) Python 3.6 doesn't handle the case correctly when the OS doesn't support setting permissions on symlinks (instead of the target files). In Python 3.7.0 this reports a `NotImplementedError` instead of `SystemError` which is handled by by `shutil.copytree` (specifically: ignored)
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@Flamefire Thanks a lot for the effort on this, much appreciated!
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As it isn't available with the setup-python action use
pyenvto install it.This allows using any version we need.
This actually turned up an error in our
copy_dirmethod with broken symlinks, similar to https://bugs.python.org/issue6547