On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> >> wrote: >>> >>> drop 2.6 >>> >>> I still don't understand why folks insist that they need to run a (very)) >>> old python on an old OS, but need the latest and greatest numpy. >>> >>> Chuck's list was pretty long and compelling. >>> >>> -CHB >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Sturla Molden <sturla.mol...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> > As a strawman proposal, how about dropping moving to 2.7 and 3.4 >>>> > minimum >>>> > supported version next fall, say around numpy 1.12 or 1.13 depending >>>> > on how >>>> > the releases go. >>>> > >>>> > I would like to here from the scipy folks first. >> >> >> +1 for dropping Python 2.6, 3.2 and 3.3 after branching 1.11.x. We're >> already behind other projects like ipython, pandas and matplotlib as usual, >> so there really isn't much point in being the only project (together with >> scipy) of the core stack to keep on supporting more or less obsolete Python >> versions. > > > OK, I'll go ahead and add a heads up to the 1.11.0 release notes that > support for Python 2.6, 3.2, and 3.3 will be dropped in 1.12.0
Looks like the decision has been made--but just to add another data point on this, the Astropy project decided to keep Python 2.6 support for the upcoming release (v1.1) but adds a deprecation warning, and support will be dropped altogether in the next release (v1.2) out sometime next year. The critical deciding factor was the (informal, non-scientific) poll of (mostly) astrophysics Python users [1] which showed just 2% of users on Python 2.6. Anecdotally, I think even in the ~half year since then there has been even more movement to scientific Python distributions, and so I would not be surprised if that number has already dropped to <1% if the exact same people were surveyed. Hard to say though. Erik [1] http://astrofrog.github.io/blog/2015/05/09/2015-survey-results/ _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
