[Numpy-discussion] NEP 28 — A standard community policy for dropping support of old Python and NumPy versions

[Andras Deak]

Hi,

This is just a reminder for others like myself who have too limited a
cognitive buffer: this NEP was renumbered and it's NEP 29 now
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14086/files (just to prevent
possible confusion).

András

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 1:52 AM Thomas Caswell <tcaswell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> This NEP is a proposing a standard policy for the community to determine when we age-out support for old  versions of Python. This came out of in-person discussions at SciPy earlier in July and scattered discussion across github. This is being proposed by maintainers from Matplotlib, scikit-learn,
> IPython, Jupyter, yt, SciPy, NumPy, and scikit-image.
>
> TL;DR:
>
> We propose only supporting versions of CPython initially released in the preceding 42 months of a major or minor release of any of our projects.
>
> Please see https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14086 and keep the discussion there as there are many interested parties (from the other projects) that may not be subscribed to the numpy mailing list.
>
> Tom
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