Re: [sympy] Addin sympy to SPEC 0?

2024-03-10 Thread Aaron Meurer
On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 8:48 AM Oscar Benjamin wrote: > > Hi Anton, > > What difference does it make to you in practice whether or not SymPy > is listed in SPEC 0? > > SymPy does not really support old versions with maintenance releases > so it does not really have a "support cycle" in the sense t

Re: [sympy] Addin sympy to SPEC 0?

2024-03-10 Thread Anton Akhmerov
> Is there a reason that someone would need to combine a newer version of your package with an older version of SymPy? I believe it's pretty much what Jason wrote: a yet another package might not support the latest SymPy yet, and a standard similar to SPEC 0 is a suggestion of what SymPy maintai

Re: [sympy] In memory of Kalevi Suominen

2024-03-10 Thread Jason Moore
Hi Oscar, That is very sad to hear. I did not know Kalevi other than through SymPy but it looks like he was an Emeritus mathematics professor from the University of Helsinki. This page shows a photo of him: https://wiki.helsinki.fi/xwiki/bin/view/mathstatHenkilokunta/Henkil%C3%B6t/Suominen%2C%20K

[sympy] In memory of Kalevi Suominen

2024-03-10 Thread Oscar Benjamin
Hi all SymPy community, It is with great sadness that I bring the news that Kalevi Suominen (@jksuom on GitHub) passed away on the 4th of March. Kalevi's son Risto passed on this news to me and some others by email yesterday. I never met Kalevi in person but we had many conversations online over

Re: [sympy] Addin sympy to SPEC 0?

2024-03-10 Thread Jason Moore
A reason to depend on and be compatible with more than 1 version of SymPy would be to maximize compatibility when installing your package (and thus SymPy) alongside a collection of interdependent packages. Jason moorepants.info +01 530-601-9791 On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 4:40 PM Oscar Benjamin wro

Re: [sympy] Addin sympy to SPEC 0?

2024-03-10 Thread Oscar Benjamin
Hi Anton, To be clear I am not against adding SymPy to SPEC 0. I just want to understand what this means in practice. Presumably if SymPy is added there then people will have some expectation that it means something somehow. I don't really know how to answer the question "which versions of SymPy

Re: [sympy] Addin sympy to SPEC 0?

2024-03-10 Thread Anton Akhmerov
Hi Oscar, I want to be able to answer a question: "which versions of SymPy should I try to support within my package that has SymPy as a dependency". It doesn't make a big difference whether this question is answered by SPEC 0 or by SymPy itself, except for SPEC 0 being a central point of refer

Re: [sympy] Addin sympy to SPEC 0?

2024-03-10 Thread Oscar Benjamin
Hi Anton, What difference does it make to you in practice whether or not SymPy is listed in SPEC 0? SymPy does not really support old versions with maintenance releases so it does not really have a "support cycle" in the sense that SPEC 0 seems to describe. There can be a bugfix release shortly a

[sympy] Addin sympy to SPEC 0?

2024-03-10 Thread Anton Akhmerov
Hi all, There is now SPEC 0, a SciPy-community-wide standard for versions of different packages that developers should aim supporting, see https://scientific-python.org/specs/spec-/ I believe Sympy is the biggest package missing from SPEC 0, and I've asked the maintainers of SPEC 0 what is

[sympy] Re: Enhancing the flexibility of MatchPy

2024-03-10 Thread Samith Kavishke
Hi Francesco, Thank you for the reply. How should I progress in this project? I have several issues encountered when I am going through the matchpy repository, where would I raise those issues. On Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at 3:49:09 PM UTC+5:30 Francesco Bonazzi wrote: > The idea that I have in