> 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 after a > feature release to fix some obvious regressions but that is basically > it.
This fact alone would be worth notating in that document. It's not always obvious to what degree different packages support older versions. I have reread the text of SPEC 0, and I believe it means "support cycle" differently from what seems to be Oscar's interpretation. Adopting SPEC 0 does not mean "SymPy developers provide support for vX.Y until AAAA-BB-CC". Rather the meaning of SPEC 0 is "SymPy developers recommend that packages that depend on SymPy should aim to support vX.Y until AAAA-BB-CC". In other words SPEC 0 does not represent additional commitments, but rather it describes how rapidly the code evolves. I believe it is useful for coordinating dependency versions of other packages in the ecosystem. Does this remark clarify the usefulness of adding SymPy to SPEC 0? Anton Aaron Meurer > > SymPy itself broadly tries to have wide version support for other > packages like numpy just because without listing them as hard > dependencies there is no way to indicate which versions sympy is > compatible with. There is no way to put version constraints on > optional dependencies in pip/PyPI land. > > Oscar > > On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 at 14:24, Anton Akhmerov <anton.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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-0000/ > > > > I believe Sympy is the biggest package missing from SPEC 0, and I've asked the maintainers of SPEC 0 what is the best way to proceed ( https://discuss.scientific-python.org/t/spec-0-include-sympy/975?u=akhmerov). They appear to welcome the idea and recommended to reach out via this mailing list. > > > > So here's the question I'd like to know (as someone authoring software that depends on Sympy): would Sympy like to join SPEC 0? > > > > Thank you for your consideration, > > Anton > > > > -- > > 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+un...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/e21d2db6-8ac4-4b01-a92c-7e49eb591146n%40googlegroups.com. > > -- > 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+un...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAHVvXxS%2Bh1foa1G3dfKA58Osp%3D%3DZ9W69gjRygjzphkcstqTarw%40mail.gmail.com. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/288b27be-ba73-47cc-9014-11e457d4123dn%40googlegroups.com.
