On 06.11.2017 11:10, Ralf Gommers wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 7:25 AM, Charles R Harris > <charlesr.har...@gmail.com <mailto:charlesr.har...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Thought I'd toss this out there. I'm tending towards better sooner > than later in dropping Python 2.7 support as we are starting to run > up against places where we would like to use Python 3 features. That > is particularly true on Windows where the 2.7 compiler is really old > and lacks C99 compatibility. > > > This is probably the most pressing reason to drop 2.7 support. We seem > to be expending a lot of effort lately on this stuff. I was previously > advocating being more conservative than the timeline you now propose, > but this is the pain point that I think gets me over the line.
Would dropping python2 support for windows earlier than the other platforms a reasonable approach? I am not a big fan of to dropping python2 support before 2020, but I have no issue with dropping python2 support on windows earlier as it is our largest pain point. _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
