On Friday, January 10, 2020 at 8:11:43 AM UTC-8, William wrote: > > The main person that has valid reason to want longer support for python2 >> is William. >> As he mentions, he has paying customers. >> > > I am 100% satisfied for my use case with cocalc by just keeping a copy of > sage-8.9 available longterm. Fortunately, I don't need any sage-9.x > versions to support python2. >
I think that for nearly all users, in practice sage < 9.0 will mean Python 2 and sage >= 9.0 will mean Python 3. There will be a handful of folks who use (sage-9.x + Python 2) for whatever few values of x this will work for, but I agree with William and others that in nearly all cases just using 8.9 would suffice. Given that the period of official dual Python 2/Python 3 support is going to be a few months, not years, I see no harm in removing Python 2 support in Sage 9.1. In terms of helping users with thousands of lines of Python 2 based Sage code, trying to keep building Sage 8.9-the-distribution binaries for future OS releases as they come out is probably a lot more effective than working hard to push back the date that Python 2 support is dropped from Sage 9.x. Best, Nathan -- 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/45548347-5167-43e1-a50e-6120e98a83d2%40googlegroups.com.
