Dropping support for 2.7 in 2020

[Stéfan van der Walt]

Hi Johannes

On Tue, 17 May 2016 at 23:26 Johannes Schönberger <jsch at demuc.de> wrote:

> Even though official support for 2.7 will be dropped on the Python side,
> my feeling is that it will stick around in official linux repositories for
> quite some time longer. Especially on clusters etc., as you mentioned. I
> would suggest to drop 2.7 support as soon as Numpy/Scipy drops it - this is
> an upper bound as we depend on it and, at the same time, numpy/scipy are
> important enough libraries that should also convince the last developer to
> make the switch to 3.x.
>

It is true that Python 2.7 will stick around beyond 2020, but it will not
receive bug-fixes any longer.  scikit-image 0.18 (or whatever :) will also
stick around along with 2.7, and we can keep supporting that release.  But
for any new releases beyond that point it makes little sense to support 2.7.

Stéfan
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