Re: [Numpy-discussion] Python2.4 support

2008-12-08 Thread Adam Mercer
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 23:42, David Cournapeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am strongly against dropping 2.4 support anytime soon. I haven't seen a strong rationale for using = 2.5 features in numpy, supporting 2.4 is not so hard, and 2.4 is still the default python version on many OS (mac os X

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Python2.4 support

2008-12-08 Thread Matthieu Brucher
While my feelings aren't as strong as David's, they are pretty much identical. As a point of reference, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 won't come out until at least the first quarter of 2010. Until then we should make a serious effort to support Python 2.4, which ships with RHEL 5. It looks

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Python2.4 support

2008-12-08 Thread Steven H. Rogers
Matthieu Brucher wrote: At least several months, if not years. RedHat supports each version 7 years, for instance (I don't ask for that long). Currently, I'm still using a RHEL 4, although it is planned to migrate to RHEL 5 next year. So we should still support 2.4 for at least 18 months, in

[Numpy-discussion] Python2.4 support

2008-12-07 Thread Pierre GM
All, * What versions of Python should be supported by what version of numpy ? Are we to expect users to rely on Python2.5 for the upcoming 1.3.x ? Could we have some kind of timeline on the trac site or elsewhere (and if such a timeline exists already, can I get the link?) ? * Talking

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Python2.4 support

2008-12-07 Thread Jarrod Millman
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Pierre GM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * What versions of Python should be supported by what version of numpy ? Are we to expect users to rely on Python2.5 for the upcoming 1.3.x ? Could we have some kind of timeline on the trac site or elsewhere (and if such a

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Python2.4 support

2008-12-07 Thread Pierre GM
On Dec 7, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Jarrod Millman wrote: NumPy 1.3.x should work with Python 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6. At some point we can drop 2.4, but I would like to wait a bit since we just dropped 2.3 support. The timeline is on the trac site: http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/milestone/1.3.0

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Python2.4 support

2008-12-07 Thread David Cournapeau
Jarrod Millman wrote: On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Pierre GM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * What versions of Python should be supported by what version of numpy ? Are we to expect users to rely on Python2.5 for the upcoming 1.3.x ? Could we have some kind of timeline on the trac site or

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Python2.4 support

2008-12-07 Thread Jarrod Millman
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 9:42 PM, David Cournapeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am strongly against dropping 2.4 support anytime soon. I haven't seen a strong rationale for using = 2.5 features in numpy, supporting 2.4 is not so hard, and 2.4 is still the default python version on many OS (mac os