Note that at PyCOn 2014 Guido announced Python 2.7 support will last until 2020:
http://www.i-programmer.info/news/216-python/7179-python-27-to-be-maintained-until-2020.html Jason moorepants.info +01 530-601-9791 On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Joachim Durchholz <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 23.06.2015 um 22:37 schrieb Jason Moore: > >> Ubuntu 12.04 is crossed out in the page but it is supported until April >> 2017 (and is still the version Travis uses). We likely need to support >> 12.04 Python versions longer. >> > > Ah right, I somehow picked the "HWE date" from the minor upgrade lines. > Fixed. (Also fixed the end date for RHEL6.) > > Though Ubuntu still isn't who's keeping 2.7 alive for the longest period > of time, that's still Debian 8 and RHEL6, which will provide it until 2020. > 2.7 is going to be really ancient by that time... and maybe we'll decide > that distro support isn't going to be the most useful metric by then. > > Please feel free to add more metrics to the wiki page if you know any! > > I don't think there is much reason for dropping Python 3.3 as you suggest. >> > > I meant to say we *can* drop it, not that we *should*. > Also I'm pretty sure one or the other distro will have it. The list is > incomplete after all. > > It is still not that old and there aren't any big technical reasons we >> shouldn't support it. >> > > Definitely. > Also, it's going to be much easier to say "we support versions from w to > z" instead of "we support versions w, y, and z", the latter is bound to be > confusing. > > -- > 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/5589D516.4060209%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/CAP7f1Ajt%2BiU8qpcERi57To_zk-AAnobU7onmj_xnzTEJEHopoQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
