2012/12/13 Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Bradley M. Froehle > <brad.froe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, but the point was that since you can live with an older version on > > Python you can probably live with an older version of NumPy. > > exactly -- also: > > How likely are you to nee the latest and greatest numpy but not a new > PyGTK, or a new name_your_package_here. And, in fact, other packages > drop support for older Python's too. > > However, what I can imagine is pretty irrelevant -- sorry I brought it > up -- either there are a significant number of folks for whom support > for old Pythons in important, or there aren't. >
I doubt it's a common situation, but just to give an example: I am developing some machine learning code that heavily relies on Numpy, and it is meant to run into a large Python 2.4 software environment, which can't easily be upgraded because it contains lots of libraries that have been built against Python 2.4. And even if I could rebuild it, they wouldn't let me ;) This Python code is mostly proprietary and doesn't require external dependencies to be upgraded... except my little module that may take advantage of Numpy improvements. -=- Olivier
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