[Matplotlib-devel] Long term release schedule

Fabien fabien.maussion at gmail.com
Mon May 16 12:25:10 EDT 2016


On 05/16/2016 04:44 PM, Benjamin Root wrote:
>
> In my company, one of the things holding us back is the amount of code
> that has little if any unit tests. For the codebases that do have decent
> coverage, our usage of CI is spotty. So, we target a particular platform
> and we never get much opportunity to automatically test other platforms
> to ensure that our changes aren't py3k-breaking. What is changing is
> that GitLab is improving its CI interface, so -- hopefully -- it'll get
> better soon.
>
> If it doesn't, then I guess I'll become the resident py2.7 supporter...

I think that what you describe is what most users will say, and this 
makes sense. However, does the codebase you mention (the one with hardly 
any tests, etc.) really depend on the very-last-update of the 
dependencies? After 2020 it will still be possible to run py2 programs...





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