On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM David Lowry-Duda <da...@lowryduda.com> wrote: > > On 10:50 Tue 01 Apr 2025, Trevor Karn wrote: > >This is my concern. But if there is a way to use only system python > >installed following https://www.python.org/about/gettingstarted/ without > >regard to version issues, and get rid of SPKG python, then that makes sense > >to me. > > I think sage currently checks for python >= 3.11. I don't know what features > that uses, but this is newer than what comes with several major > distributions. For example, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS uses python 3.8 as its system > python, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS uses python 3.10 as its system python.
You are not limited to only one python3 on these systems, you can install another, newer, python3 (it would get a suffix, like python3.11) and use it just as well. (for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS one can only official python3.10, and newer via a ppa, but it's an outlier, and 20.04 LTS is a very old OS, not really well-supported anymore, OS. In May 2025 one either has to pay extra for its support, or upgrade). Our policies on minimal python3 versions are more or less in line with what the main scientific Python packages, such as scipy, are following - and they are doing just fine without bundling a python3 as a sub-package. Our current 3.11 is a bit ahead of the curve ATM, but we could be a bit slower, and sticky to a particularly widely adapted system, like scipy does. Dima > > - DLD > > -- > 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 visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/Z-wMylxcLRvyborl%40icerm-dld. -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq1hqv_PVfbHLvP1_Qamf%2BcjOyw6Z%3DvgAyNwGu-YnAVYeg%40mail.gmail.com.
