[SciPy-Dev] dropping python 2.7 and numpy <1.13.3

[Ralf Gommers]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 8:52 PM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 8:00 PM Mark Alexander Mikofski <
> mikofski at berkeley.edu> wrote:
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>> > SciPy doesn't appear to be a signatory to
>> http://www.python3statement.org/ Should it be?
>>
>> IMO yes, instructions are here:
>> https://github.com/python3statement/python3statement.github.io
>>
>
> Yes, if the proposal is accepted, then we should add ourselves there.
>
> It seems that the proposal is uncontroversial. I propose to accept it if
> no significant objections have been made in 3 days (so 1 week after the
> start of this thread).
>

Okay, looks like we agree on this! I'll send a doc PR for the release
notes, as well as a PR to python3statement.

Cheers,
Ralf


>
>> On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 7:40 PM Paul van Mulbregt <
>> p.vanmulbregt at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Just read the NumPy discussion thread.  Some suggestions in that thread:
>>> 1. Bump the major version number after the LTS release.
>>> 2. Allow cleaning up of the code after the LTS release to take advantage
>>> of the newly allowed features.
>>> Counter suggestion: Don't clean up the code, in either the py3 codebase
>>> or the LTS release.  That would make it easier to back-port PRs as needed.
>>>
>>
> For now I'd suggest no cleanups - backports will be needed for a while.
>
>
>>> I didn’t see mention one way or the other in
>>> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/neps/dropping-python2.7-proposal.rst
>>> Did NumPy come to a decision on these?
>>>
>>
> No hard decision IIRC, but leaning towards no cleanups.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>
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