On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 4:42 AM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 2:36 PM Charles R Harris < > charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 3:06 AM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 4:18 AM Charles R Harris < >>> charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 6:02 PM Stefan van der Walt < >>>> stef...@berkeley.edu> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2019, at 09:34, Charles R Harris wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I think we can support 3.5 as long as we please, the question is how >>>>> long we *want* to support it. I don't plan to release 1.18 wheels for 3.5, >>>>> but I'm concerned about making 1.18 outright incompatible with 3.5. I >>>>> would >>>>> like to see the random interface settle before we do that. So my >>>>> preference >>>>> would be to drop 3.5 in 1.19 with a future warning in the 1.18 release >>>>> notes. Alternatively, we could backport all the random changes to 1.17, >>>>> but >>>>> I would rather not do that. >>>>> >>>>> >>> I'm not sure I like this approach, which is reflected in the current >>> version of https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14673. If we stop >>> testing 3.5 in CI, don't release 3.5 wheels and remove the PyPI trove >>> classifier for it (so installation tools may not install it anymore), then >>> what's the point of saying we "don't drop it"? I'd rather keep it fully >>> supported for one more month and release a couple of wheels, or just drop >>> it completely. I don't have much of a preference which option is better, >>> just would like to avoid half-dropping it. >>> >>> >> That's fair. The 1.17.3 release supporting Python 3.5--3.8 went well >> enough. The only glitch was that I had to explicitly use OSX 10.6 and icode >> 6.4 for the 3.5 wheels on the Mac. >> > > So do you have a preference for dropping or not dropping for 1.18? > Let's not drop it. Four weeks isn't that long to wait. Chuck
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