On 6 January 2013 23:36, Andreas Mueller <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/06/2013 11:27 AM, Lars Buitinck wrote:
> > 2013/1/6 Robert Layton <[email protected]>:
> >> On the other note, should we perhaps make this the focus of the next
> >> release? i.e. going through and making sure everything works in both
> 2.X and
> >> 3.Y
> > Couldn't we just start adding Py3 compatibility module by module and
> > only advertise it in the developer docs, so (potential) contributors
> > know it's a requirement but we don't have to support it yet? That way,
> > we don't need to get it right in one go, but every time we convert
> > something we add least get feedback from the build bots on 2.X compat.
> I am very much in favour of that approach.
> Building a complete compatible codebase was a major undertaking for
> ogrisel.
> Since the PR is somewhat old, a lot of his effort might be wasted.
>
> I am really in favour of doing small steps and think it suits our
> development
> philosophy somewhat better.
>
> Btw, I think we still support lucid, which is 10.04!
>
> Moving to 12.04 might leave many people behind and I think we should not
> make this step lightly.
> If it helps us a lot in the 3.x compatibility, then we should vote on
> dropping 2.6 I guess.
>
> For release schedule see ML in 5 minutes.
>
> Best,
> Andy
>
>
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Any ideas what would actually be broken if we drop 2.6?
New style prints have been backported to 2.6 (
http://docs.python.org/2/whatsnew/2.6.html#pep-3105-print-as-a-function),
but there may be some numpy/scipy feature we use that isn't compatible.
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