[SciPy-User] Pylab - standard packages

Ralf Gommers ralf.gommers at gmail.com
Fri Sep 21 12:32:47 EDT 2012


On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > The part of IPython that's pretty much universal is the command line
> > interface, so I don't see a problem with setting the minimum version to
> > 0.10.
>
> I really hope not.  The internals of IPython, the configuration, the
> usage, everything, is *completely* different in the 0.10 series and
> afterwards.  We don't maintain or support 0.10 anymore.  It would be a
> huge disservice to users to get them going on something that's already
> obsolete.
>

The point of that remark was that we shouldn't set requirements that will
say "Python(x,y) / Spyder isn't compliant", nothing more than that. Of
course I'd prefer the latest and greatest. If IPython in Spyder will be
updated soon it's a non-issue.

Ralf
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