On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 12:12 AM 'Travis Scrimshaw' via sage-devel <sage-devel@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > On #30423, which is getting close to completion, we will be using > multiprocessing.shared_memory, which is only available on Python 3.8+. > However, right now we are at least allowing Python 3.7 (as per the patchbot). > So my main proposal would be to bump the minimum required Python version to > 3.8, which was released Oct. 14, 2019. > > On that ticket, we can make it so that the main entry point runs things in > serial if the Python version is sufficiently small and that the doc builds, > but the doctests for the parallel code will fail. So the first alternative > option would be to mark certain doctests (or the file) as needing a large > Python version.
As 3.7 still has 2 years to go before EOL, we'd rather keep it - I'd just say tag the doctests with bigger versions of Python if needed. > > A second alternative is that this can be split off as a separate package > (either an optional Sage package or pip installable). Yet, it is somewhat > tightly coupled with the FusionRing code (and root systems) in Sage, so this > is not so desirable. A less invasive way would be to just split the parallel > part off, but this would take some work to do I think. > > What do people think? > > Best, > Travis > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/e9bd34ce-3fac-4737-a8f8-a5203f2fd87en%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq1EvH2DCh_th-Pki_f%3DDgAhE0h6%2BNhvb8Uo9UGww20gnA%40mail.gmail.com.
