On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Nelle Varoquaux <nelle.varoqu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9 August 2016 at 17:28, Juan Nunez-Iglesias <jni.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > > @Emmanuelle I'm probably among the ones pushing hardest for this, and I > can > > tell you, I can't wait for this change in policy, and would be sorely > > disappointed by having to work in an experimental branch of scikit-image. > > Both @-matmul and keyword-only arguments are, imho, compelling reasons to > > switch. (Imagine the amount of fiddling with the API that we could do > with > > keyword-only arguments, without the annoying deprecation cycle!) > > > > @Ralf I would argue in favour of 3.5, for the above reasons and because > > anyone who had the temerity to update to 3.4 is very likely to > subsequently > > move to 3.5. (Self-selected group of early adopters, plus no backwards > > incompatibility issues between the two versions.) > I agree with this argument, I was just asking to clarify. @ is at least something interesting that's specifically added for scientific users, so imho 3.5 is the first 3.x release where in some cases the benefits may start to be worth the costs. > That implies that even ubuntu users will have to install python from > another source than the package manager. Do you really want this? That > means that only fairly advance python users will be able to use the > latest scikit-image release. > In the grand scheme of things, does Ubuntu matter much for this decision? There are way more Windows and OS X users, so if it's OK for them (which is not a given) then it should also be OK for those fewer and on average more computer-literate Ubuntu users. Ralf -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "scikit-image" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to scikit-image+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to scikit-image@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/scikit-image/CABL7CQhEaD0uy0SyrcNO_j%2BDsE%3DX8ALKvsk4XF3v6_bzOocmEw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
