On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Andreas Mueller <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On 07/28/2016 12:03 PM, Matthew Brett wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 10:08 PM, Andreas Mueller <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Daniel.
>>> This hasn't been brought up before so there is no "official position".
>>> I am generally in favor, though I'm not sure how doable it is.
>>> We are generally pretty generous in accepting all kinds of inputs, and
>>> many
>>> of our options can have different types: (None, int, float, string,
>>> nd-array) is relatively common as a type for an option.
>>> As we still support 2.6, we would need to do comments or external files.
>>
>> Given numpy has dropped support for 2.6, maybe it would be reasonable
>> for scikit-learn to do the same, to make this process easier?
>>
> How would it change the process?
> We have been discussing this. My stance is that we should drop it
> as soon as it creates a major nuisance, but not just for the sake
> of dropping it.

Ah - sorry - I misunderstood this:

> As we still support 2.6, we would need to do comments or external files.

to mean 2.6 specifically, rather than 2.x.

Cheers,

Matthew
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