[Neuroimaging] Drop Python 2.6 for nibabel?

[David Gutman]

agreed-- I think 8 years is a fairly good support period...    I haven't
made the switch to the python 3.0+ series, but I'd be surprised if there
were a lot of systems still using 2.6     I think the main challenge might
be people using very old versions of REDHAT/Centos that may still? be
dependent on 2.6 since YUM is dependent on it.



On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:46 PM JB Poline <jbpoline at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds most reasonable to me.
> JB
>
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yarik current has a PR into nibabel that needs `collections.Counter`,
>> available in Python >= 2.7 [1]
>>
>> https://github.com/nipy/nibabel/pull/437
>>
>> At the moment, nibabel supports Python 2.6, but Python 2.6 was
>> released in 2008 [2] isn't maintained any more [3], and numpy is
>> dropping Python 2.6 in the next release [4].  So, I propose that we
>> drop Python 2.6 support for nibabel as well.  Any objections?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Matthew
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/nipy/nibabel/pull/437
>> [2] https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/
>> [3] https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.9/
>> [4]
>> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/release/1.12.0-notes.rst#dropped-support
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