Hi, On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Matthew Rocklin <[email protected]> wrote: > That is a thorough and well worded response. Thank you. 2.5 often > frustrates me but you've just changed my vote. I think we should continue to > support 2.5. It seems to be mostly just an inconvenience.
This discussion comes up on the other lists of course. Numpy and scipy recently dropped 2.5 compatibility. Of course, that does not mean that people who are using Python 2.5 can't use Sympy, just that they can't benefit from new releases. The cost of keeping compatibility is making the code slower to write, refactor and to maintain. So the balance, as y'all have said, is between <development time lost> vs <frustration for people on older systems being unable to upgrade their sympies>. >From my numpy / scipy world, it seems to me that the switch to Python 3 is finally happening, and people are also starting to switch to common code-bases for python 2 and 3. That is so for scipy, for example. That is much harder with Python 2.5. Best, Matthew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
