[SciPy-Dev] Required Python Version

[Ralf Gommers]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 8:06 PM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Charles R Harris
> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Is there a good reason we shouldn't raise the required python version up
> to
> > 2.5?
>
> Yes, a lot of "enterprise ready"  distributions still use python 2.4
> (RHEL, Centos).
>
> That's not a convincing argument for an infinite amount of time. People who
value "enterprise ready" meaning they run ancient stuff should be perfectly
fine with numpy 1.4 + scipy 0.8 for a long time from now. And otherwise they
can upgrade python itself quite easily. 2.4 doesn't even get security
updates anymore.

We now support python 2.4-2.6, for the next versions we'll add 2.7, 3.1 and
3.2. Supporting more versions has a cost. And it's clear that the amount of
people running 2.4 from svn is at or close to zero, because recent syntax
errors for 2.4 have gone unnoticed for a long period. I think it's about
time to drop 2.4.

Cheers,
Ralf
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