Robert Bradshaw schrieb am 11.02.19 um 16:54:

On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 12:45 PM Stefan Behnel wrote:

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Robert Bradshaw schrieb am 06.02.19 um 10:37:

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Realistically, I think that if we don't support 2.7 in the 3.0 release, we're signing up for maintaining a long-lived 2.9 branch, which I'd like to avoid.

Although the same would probably apply to Cy3.0 if we cut Py2.7 support in Cy3.1. Some Linux enterprise distributions will support Py2.7 for another 6-10 years or so. It doesn't feel like switching now or in a couple of months makes a big difference on that front.

I think the changes in Cy2.9 and Cy3.0 are bigger than those between Cy3.0 and Cy3.1, and in particular there are user-facing changes (e.g. the language level default) that make it harder for users of Cython to support both from a single codebase (though for that one I suppose one could manually set a directive).

Ok, lets's keep Py2 support for Cy3.0. Why have one reason to celebrate when you can have two? Stefan