<div dir="ltr"><div>I know it seems silly, but would an amendment to NEP29 be reasonable? <br><br></div><div>Many downstream packages look to numpy to understand what versions should be supported and NEP29 gave some good guidance.</div><div>That said, if it is worth ignoring, or revisiting, some clarity on how to apply NEP29 given recent development would be appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Mark<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 8:24 AM Ralf Gommers <<a href="mailto:ralf.gommers@gmail.com">ralf.gommers@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 2:25 PM Charles R Harris <<a href="mailto:charlesr.harris@gmail.com" target="_blank">charlesr.harris@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi All,<br><div><br></div><div>Time to start planning for the 1.20.x branch. These are my thoughts at the moment:</div><div><ul><li>Keep support for Python 3.6. Python 3.7 came out in June 2018, which seems too recent to be our oldest supported version.</li><li>Drop Python 3.6 for 1.21.x, that will make the oldest supported version about three years old.</li><li>Drop manylinux1 for 1.21.x. It would be nice to drop earlier, but manylinux2010 is pretty recent.</li></ul><div>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.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Seems reasonable to me.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>Ralf</div><div><br></div></div></div>
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