On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 4:18 AM, Joachim Durchholz <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 22.11.2014 um 21:20 schrieb Aaron Meurer: >> >> But again, the main question is if people are using it. > > > Exactly. > Do we have any figures about how many people are still using SymPy with 2.6? > There were some Android issues last time dropping 2.6 came up, IIRC.
Btw, IPython also doesn't support Python 2.6, and I bet IPython is used by more people than SymPy, so if it is good for IPython, I think it will be good for us as well. Ondrej > >> Some advantages of dropping support is that there is a lot of nice >> syntax backported from Python 3 in Python 2.7 which is unavailable >> in Python 2.6. > > Question is: Does that improve any of the success factors for SymPy? > I see two: User adoption and developer attraction. > > User adoption would benefit from speed and reliability. I can't judge > whether the newly available features would help with that, or whether that > would make enough of a difference to be user-noticeable. > > Developer attraction: Do we have any reactions on the line of "ugh... 2.6... > no thanks"? > > -- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/5471C279.2040302%40durchholz.org. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CADDwiVBz9L8XjNkfNmwt5ZSMSKR9qRojKjf1m2XjEmzQxERUJQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
