A small factual correction: On Wednesday, 10 August 2016 05:14:49 UTC+1, Johannes Schönberger wrote: > > And it seems the latest Ubuntu is still on 3.4... >
This is not accurate - Ubuntu 16.04 (the LTS release that came out in April this year), has Python 3.5: http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/python3 Ubuntu 15.10 is no longer supported (non-LTS releases get 9 months support). Of course there will still be users on 14.04, and even 12.04, for some time. I don't want to push an aggressive policy on the project, but I would encourage you to make plans for dropping Python 2 support at some time in the next few years, and sign http://python3statement.github.io/ . I know this may feel like 'users vs developers' at the moment, but I don't think it's that simple. The split between Python 3 and 2 has been causing users headaches for several years now. The only realistic way to end this is to complete the transition, so that Python 3 becomes the standard answer for everything but large legacy codebases. There's little impetus to make Python 3 available in institutional environments so long as people assume that all important Python projects will always support Python 2. So when we make this decision as a community, rather than individual projects, I think it ultimately helps both users and developers. These groups also have common interests - developers who spend less effort on compatibility work can pay more attention to more interesting improvements. With the Python 3 statement, we believe we're setting a relaxed timetable: projects only commit to dropping Python 2 support by 2020, which is still four years away. We expect to be on Python 3.7 by that time. The aim is not to leave Python 2 users in the lurch, but to give everyone plenty of notice that support for Python 2 will come to an end, so that they can plan a transition in good time. Thanks, Thomas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "scikit-image" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to scikit-image+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to scikit-image@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/scikit-image/dc4aebe7-c81b-4366-9248-96d10d03672f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
