Hi, On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 7:08 PM, Julian Taylor <jtaylor.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 06.11.2017 11:10, Ralf Gommers wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 7:25 AM, Charles R Harris >> <charlesr.har...@gmail.com <mailto:charlesr.har...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> Thought I'd toss this out there. I'm tending towards better sooner >> than later in dropping Python 2.7 support as we are starting to run >> up against places where we would like to use Python 3 features. That >> is particularly true on Windows where the 2.7 compiler is really old >> and lacks C99 compatibility. >> >> >> This is probably the most pressing reason to drop 2.7 support. We seem >> to be expending a lot of effort lately on this stuff. I was previously >> advocating being more conservative than the timeline you now propose, >> but this is the pain point that I think gets me over the line. > > > Would dropping python2 support for windows earlier than the other > platforms a reasonable approach? > I am not a big fan of to dropping python2 support before 2020, but I > have no issue with dropping python2 support on windows earlier as it is > our largest pain point.
I wonder about this too. I can imagine there are a reasonable number of people using older Linux distributions on which they cannot upgrade to a recent Python 3, but is that likely to be true for Windows? We'd have to make sure we could persuade pypi to give the older version for Windows, by default - I don't know if that is possible. Cheers, Matthew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
