Migration to Python 3.x

[Nelle Varoquaux]

On 9 August 2016 at 17:28, Juan Nunez-Iglesias <jni.soma at gmail.com> wrote:
> @Emmanuelle I'm probably among the ones pushing hardest for this, and I can
> tell you, I can't wait for this change in policy, and would be sorely
> disappointed by having to work in an experimental branch of scikit-image.
> Both @-matmul and keyword-only arguments are, imho, compelling reasons to
> switch. (Imagine the amount of fiddling with the API that we could do with
> keyword-only arguments, without the annoying deprecation cycle!)
>
> @Ralf I would argue in favour of 3.5, for the above reasons and because
> anyone who had the temerity to update to 3.4 is very likely to subsequently
> move to 3.5. (Self-selected group of early adopters, plus no backwards
> incompatibility issues between the two versions.)

That implies that even ubuntu users will have to install python from
another source than the package manager. Do you really want this? That
means that only fairly advance python users will be able to use the
latest scikit-image release.

>
> Juan.
>
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Stéfan van der Walt <stefanv at berkeley.edu>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ralf
>>
>> On 9 August 2016 at 15:09, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Stefan, do you propose then to drop Python 3.4 at the same time (@ is
>>> >= 3.5)?
>>
>>
>> Yes, I guess I am.  But if that's too much of a stretch, I will be open to
>> >= 3.4.
>>
>> Stéfan
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