Can someone with trac admin access and know-how add a 9.2 milestone, so people can develop for 9.2 if they want to focus on dropping Python 2 support?
Meanwhile, 9.1 should include a deprecation warning when people use './configure --with-python=2'. On Sunday, January 5, 2020 at 1:06:21 PM UTC-8, Nils Bruin wrote: > > I think our wiki vetoes that idea. See > https://wiki.sagemath.org/Python3-Switch : > > Compiling with Python 2 > > After version 9.0, if you really want so, you can still build and use > SageMath with *Python 2*, as follows. > > make configure./configure --with-python=2make build > > Beware that you will need to call the second line again if you ever call > "make distclean". > This will work until version 9.1 at least. Then the backward compatibility > with Python 2 will no longer be ensured. > > If you want to drop py2 compatibility very soon, the only option is to > release 9.1 basically right now, identical to 9.0, and then get on with > developing 9.2. That's a nasty thing to do. Based on previous release > schedules, people would be justified in expecting that <=9.1 is the > "current" release until at least June 2020 or so. So we're stuck with py2 > compatibility until that time. > -- 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/2a6cdc41-1ef1-4f95-b44c-c062342dc82b%40googlegroups.com.
