On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Charles R Harris<charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Darren Dale<dsdal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:38 AM, John Reid <j.r...@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk> >> wrote: >>> >>> David Cournapeau wrote: >>> > (Continuing the discussion initiated in the neighborhood iterator >>> > thread) >>> > - Chuck suggested to drop python < 2.6 support from now on. I am >>> > against it without a very strong and detailed rationale, because many OS >>> > still don't have python 2.6 (RHEL, Ubuntu LTS). >>> >>> I vote against dropping support for python 2.5. Personally I have no >>> incentive to upgrade to 2.6 and am very happy with 2.5. >> >> Will requiring python-2.6 help the developers port numpy to python-3? >> > > Can't really say at this point, but it is the suggested path to > python-3. I raised the point to start a discussion. My thoughts are > that we need to make the move at some point next year. >
Before that move we should have a version of numpy that doesn't need many fixes and that supports developments in scipy so that folks can get good functionality sticking to that release for a while without upgrading. But we do need to think a bit about what that entails. Chuck _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
