IPython seems to be ahead of the curve here (most other libraries I know of still support 2.6), whereas SymPy has traditionally been behind the curve (we supported 2.5 for longer than most libraries). At least that's what I remember. We could probably look up the release details to be sure, say, for the other libraries in the scipy stack.
Aaron Meurer On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Ondřej Čertík <ondrej.cer...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 4:18 AM, Joachim Durchholz <j...@durchholz.org> wrote: >> Am 22.11.2014 um 21:20 schrieb Aaron Meurer: >>> >>> But again, the main question is if people are using it. >> >> >> Exactly. >> Do we have any figures about how many people are still using SymPy with 2.6? >> There were some Android issues last time dropping 2.6 came up, IIRC. > > Btw, IPython also doesn't support Python 2.6, and I bet IPython is > used by more people than SymPy, so if it is good for IPython, I think > it will be good for us as well. > > Ondrej > >> >>> Some advantages of dropping support is that there is a lot of nice >>> syntax backported from Python 3 in Python 2.7 which is unavailable >>> in Python 2.6. >> >> Question is: Does that improve any of the success factors for SymPy? >> I see two: User adoption and developer attraction. >> >> User adoption would benefit from speed and reliability. I can't judge >> whether the newly available features would help with that, or whether that >> would make enough of a difference to be user-noticeable. >> >> Developer attraction: Do we have any reactions on the line of "ugh... 2.6... >> no thanks"? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sympy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/5471C279.2040302%40durchholz.org. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CADDwiVBz9L8XjNkfNmwt5ZSMSKR9qRojKjf1m2XjEmzQxERUJQ%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6LJ66Gc3%2BVm9bG6yf8%2BBpb%3Dn8utc_guBo1wmVz9vBZ3og%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
