On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 11:43 PM Aaron Meurer <asmeu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 3:05 PM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > So, I think I'm in favor of dropping Python 3.9 support after all to > prevent problems. It is late in the game, but I do see that we're going to > cause problems for packages that have already dropped 3.9, and I don't yet > see an issue with dropping 3.9 for numpy 2.0 now. Does anyone see a > potential failure mode if we go that way? > > Presumably dropping 3.9 support at this point would not mean removing > anything that would actually break NumPy in Python 3.9. It would just > mean adding the python_requires metadata and not building a 3.9 wheel. > So if someone really needs a 3.9-compatible NumPy 2.0 they could build > a wheel manually. > > I'm assuming the python_requires metadata is required though since > otherwise pip would try to build a wheel from source. > Yes indeed, correct on all points. Cheers, Ralf
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