The Spyder team have made amazing progress over the last couple of years going from Spyder 3 to Spyder 5. The Python programming language is very dynamic and has a multitude of data science libraries, many which the Spyder variable explorer is the only IDE that can be used to visualise the data. Also GUI programming is difficult. A bug may appear on Linux that doesn't appear on Windows and so on. For example the Spyder icon sizes don't scale in Linux when a large DPI scaling (>100 %) is used on Linux but scales fine on Windows likely due to differences in the way QT5 is working on the OS.
Spyder has a wide userbase and people are using it for a variety of purposes with different libraries and plugins. On GitHub the number of bug submissions being flagged and addressed is high and it is far better to have frequent releases addressing these bugs then a static version riddled with bugs that never gets updated and can never be used. On Thursday, September 16, 2021 at 8:53:35 AM UTC+1 Zbigniew Jachimowicz wrote: > I AM SURPRISED OF WHAT THE "SPIDER" PROGRAMMERS DO. They think up > something and publish it without checking. MICROSOFT DOES ITSELF, RELEASING > ANOTHER VERSIONS OF WINDOWS. ONLY USERS HAVE TO CHECK WHAT'S WORKING AND > WHAT'S NOT. Was he a good idea or not for anything. > Best Regards Zbych > > czw., 16 wrz 2021 o 04:07 Carlos Córdoba <[email protected]> napisał(a): > >> Hi all, >> >> On the behalf of the Spyder Project Contributors >> <https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/graphs/contributors>, I’m pleased >> to announce that Spyder *5.1.5* has been released and is available for >> Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOS X: >> https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases >> >> This release comes three days after version 5.1.4 and it contains the >> following important fixes: >> >> - Fix docking of external plugins. >> >> In this release we fixed 1 issue and merged 3 pull requests that amount >> to more than 20 commits. For a full list of fixes, please see our >> Changelog <https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/blob/5.x/CHANGELOG.md>. >> >> Don’t forget to follow Spyder updates/news on the project’s website >> <https://www.spyder-ide.org>. >> >> Last, but not least, we welcome any contribution that helps making Spyder >> an efficient scientific development and computing environment. Join us to >> help creating your favorite environment! >> >> Enjoy! >> Carlos >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "spyder" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/spyderlib/a546a347-2792-43fa-aeaf-020c39db4211%40gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/spyderlib/a546a347-2792-43fa-aeaf-020c39db4211%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/spyderlib/6d8cda20-57c5-4333-aefd-dff0a53962b0n%40googlegroups.com.
