Dec. 13, 2014
12:05 p.m.
Hi all, During the last week there were 3 PRs that failed because they used features not available in numpy 1.5.x or 1.6.x: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/4238 (copy kw to astype method) https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/4256 (out kw to ufuncs) https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/4260 (use of np.random.choice) All those issues were/are fixable, but it looks like the balance of gain from keeping support for those numpy versions to development effort of supporting them is slowly shifting the wrong way. So questions: 1. Is anyone still relying on numpy 1.5.x or 1.6.x support for the next scipy releases? 2. Is it time to drop support for those versions, or if not then when? Cheers, Ralf