[SciPy-Dev] when to drop numpy 1.5.x/1.6.x support?

[Lars Buitinck]

2014-12-13 13:05 GMT+01:00 Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>:
> 1. Is anyone still relying on numpy 1.5.x or 1.6.x support for the next
> scipy releases?

I don't, but I just checked the NumPy version that comes with various
Linux distros so we can see what people are likely to have. There is
no Ubuntu long-term support release that ships 1.5, only 1.4 (10.04)
or 1.6 (12.04) [1]. Debian doesn't list 1.5 for any of its releases
either [2]. CentOS 6 ships 1.4 [3], while CentOS 7 ships 1.7.1 [4].

I take this to mean that almost nobody has NumPy 1.5, so there's no
great benefit to supporting it. 1.6 might be more common.


[1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=numpy&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
[2] https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=numpy&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
[3] http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/
[4] http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/