I guess we can wait and see what the results of this survey are, but I think one more year is too long. If it is creating difficulties for sympy, I think it can go.
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Ondrej Certik <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I just wanted to make a quick survey how many sympy users still use > python2.4? > > Now even the stable version of Debian uses python2.5. Is there still a > major linux distribution that uses python2.4? > > The real problem with python2.4 is that it doesn't support relative > imports and as such it's a realy pain to include libraries like > mpmath. Fredrik mentioned here > > http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/detail?id=138#c30 > > that he would like to reintroduce hierarchy of modules in mpmath, > which is really tedious to make it work inside sympy with python2.4. > > With sympy itself, it's not a big problem to support python2.4, one > just needs to take care of things like "any()", "SKIP in doctest" > etc., so my plan is to support python2.4 at least one more year if > possible. > > What do you think? > > Ondrej > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
