[Numpy-discussion] NumPy 1.20.x branch in two weeks

[Ralf Gommers]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 2:25 PM Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Time to start planning for the 1.20.x branch. These are my thoughts at the
> moment:
>
>    - Keep support for Python 3.6. Python 3.7 came out in June 2018, which
>    seems too recent to be our oldest supported version.
>    - Drop Python 3.6 for 1.21.x, that will make the oldest supported
>    version about three years old.
>    - Drop manylinux1 for 1.21.x. It would be nice to drop earlier, but
>    manylinux2010 is pretty recent.
>
> There were 33 wheels in the 1.19.3 release, I think we can live with that
> for 1.20.x. I'm more worried about our tools aging out. After Python has
> settled into its yearly release cycle, I think we will end up supporting
> the latest 4 versions.
>
> Thoughts?
>

Seems reasonable to me.

Cheers,
Ralf
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