Dropping support for 2.7 in 2020

[Thomas Caswell]

The proposed release schedule for mpl is being discussed at
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/matplotlib-devel/2016-May/000374.html

The key point is that 'dropping python2' only means 'for new releases', all
of the existing packaged code will continue to work.  How often do users
want to install cutting edge skimage on top of system python2?

Tom

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 4:47 AM Himanshu Mishra <himanshu2014iit at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just a pointer : Ubuntu 16.04 has officially removed Python 2 from the
> distribution. So yes, *people will be* moving to Python 3 now.
> On 18 May 2016 1:22 pm, "Stéfan van der Walt" <stefanv at berkeley.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 18 May 2016 at 00:40 Emmanuelle Gouillart <
>> emmanuelle.gouillart at nsup.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> > It's probably not terribly much, but it does prohibit us from making
>>> use of
>>> > newer language features as they develop.
>>>
>>> Any pointer about such new features so that ignorant people like myself
>>> can educate themselves :-D?
>>>
>>
>> Here are a few, compliments of Aaron Muerer:
>>
>> http://asmeurer.github.io/python3-presentation/python3-presentation.pdf
>>
>> > I should emphasize that I think it's perfectly reasonable to keep
>>> > supporting an older release of scikit-image for 2.7, just not the
>>> > latest release.
>>>
>>> Of course. It's possible that in 2020 we'll have reached a "stationary
>>> state" as NumPy, and that new releases will mostly be about bug fixes and
>>> improved documentation. But we're still on a fast growing curve, so it's
>>> hard to know.
>>
>>
>> :D  Feature complete!  That will be a day for celebration.
>>
>> Stéfan
>>
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