[Matplotlib-devel] What minimum version of python3?

[Nathan Goldbaum]

Ubuntu 14.04 (which admittedly goes EOL in April) is still on python 3.4,
for example.

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 5:28 PM Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 10:40 PM, Thomas Caswell <tcaswell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > These are derived from today's call:
> >
> > Pro 3.6:
> >  - by the time we release, 3.7 will be out so will support "two most
> recent
> > python"
> >     - this gives 3 years of support on master of each python version
> > (assuming python sticks
> >  - ordered, faster dictionaries (as implementation detail in 3.6,
> guaranteed
> > in 3.7)
> >  - guaranteed ordered kwargs / class definitions (do precedence of
> > conflicting kwaargs)
> >  - fstrings
> >  - fspath / pathlib protocol
> >
> > Con 3.6:
> >  - feels a bit agressive as 3.7 is not out yet
> >  - might get ahead of some LTS releases
> >    - but older version of Matplotlib will still work
> >    - user-space environments go along way to fixing this
> >      - conda
> >      -
> >
> https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-python-3-and-set-up-a-local-programming-environment-on-centos-7
> >    - ubuntu 18.04 is planned to be py3.6 by default
> >
> > Pro 3.5:
> >  - more conservative approach
> >  - pypy3 support (but they will support 3.6 eventually)
> >
> > The consensus on the call and on gitter seems to be for 3.6 as the
> minimum.
>
> Man - that seems pretty extreme.   Are the 3.6 features really worth
> it?  There must be a lot of Linuces at Python 3.5, even at the most
> recent distribution.  Was there by any chance a majority of conda
> users on the call?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
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