Hi,
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 7:08 PM, Julian Taylor
On 06.11.2017 11:10, Ralf Gommers wrote:
On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 7:25 AM, Charles R Harris
mailto:charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote: Hi All,
Thought I'd toss this out there. I'm tending towards better sooner than later in dropping Python 2.7 support as we are starting to run up against places where we would like to use Python 3 features. That is particularly true on Windows where the 2.7 compiler is really old and lacks C99 compatibility.
This is probably the most pressing reason to drop 2.7 support. We seem to be expending a lot of effort lately on this stuff. I was previously advocating being more conservative than the timeline you now propose, but this is the pain point that I think gets me over the line.
Would dropping python2 support for windows earlier than the other platforms a reasonable approach? I am not a big fan of to dropping python2 support before 2020, but I have no issue with dropping python2 support on windows earlier as it is our largest pain point.
I wonder about this too. I can imagine there are a reasonable number of people using older Linux distributions on which they cannot upgrade to a recent Python 3, but is that likely to be true for Windows? We'd have to make sure we could persuade pypi to give the older version for Windows, by default - I don't know if that is possible. Cheers, Matthew