On Tue, 11 May 2021, 00:51 'Travis Scrimshaw' via sage-devel, < sage-devel@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Do we have a doctest tag for a minimum python version? > make your own, say: # optional: py38 > Best, > Travis > > > On Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 9:20:00 AM UTC+10 dim...@gmail.com wrote: > >> On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 12:12 AM 'Travis Scrimshaw' via sage-devel >> <sage-...@googlegroups.com> wrote: >> > >> > On #30423, which is getting close to completion, we will be using >> multiprocessing.shared_memory, which is only available on Python 3.8+. >> However, right now we are at least allowing Python 3.7 (as per the >> patchbot). So my main proposal would be to bump the minimum required Python >> version to 3.8, which was released Oct. 14, 2019. >> > >> > On that ticket, we can make it so that the main entry point runs things >> in serial if the Python version is sufficiently small and that the doc >> builds, but the doctests for the parallel code will fail. So the first >> alternative option would be to mark certain doctests (or the file) as >> needing a large Python version. >> >> As 3.7 still has 2 years to go before EOL, we'd rather keep it - I'd >> just say tag the doctests with bigger versions of Python if needed. >> >> >> > >> > A second alternative is that this can be split off as a separate >> package (either an optional Sage package or pip installable). Yet, it is >> somewhat tightly coupled with the FusionRing code (and root systems) in >> Sage, so this is not so desirable. A less invasive way would be to just >> split the parallel part off, but this would take some work to do I think. >> > >> > What do people think? >> > >> > Best, >> > Travis >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "sage-devel" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/e9bd34ce-3fac-4737-a8f8-a5203f2fd87en%40googlegroups.com. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/a353d199-5bb3-4fcf-92af-b301f48f9ed1n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/a353d199-5bb3-4fcf-92af-b301f48f9ed1n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq04s5-Du4ZPySyXMwadQyZCYXOcdbwm8BKn7Yd4Z%2BXphQ%40mail.gmail.com.
