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

[Jaime Fernández del Río]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
wrote:
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> On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Daπid <davidmenhur at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 13 December 2014 at 13:34, Lars Buitinck <larsmans at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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].
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> Thanks for checking. The most recent Ubuntu LTS and CentOS releases are
> good data points in general I'd say. In this case Ubuntu (and Debian
> stable) are on 1.6.x, so keep that but drop 1.5.x then?
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+1 on dropping 1.5.x.

I would actually skip over 1.6 and go all the way to 1.7 and its multi-axis
reduction operations. But having einsum and out kwargs is already a much
welcome change.

Jaime
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