Hi Oscar, I want to be able to answer a question: "which versions of SymPy should I try to support within my package that has SymPy as a dependency". It doesn't make a big difference whether this question is answered by SPEC 0 or by SymPy itself, except for SPEC 0 being a central point of reference. I realized that SymPy has no support cycle, but I think the question is still useful regardless.
Anton On Sunday 10 March 2024 at 15:48:13 UTC+1 Oscar wrote: > Hi Anton, > > What difference does it make to you in practice whether or not SymPy > is listed in SPEC 0? > > SymPy does not really support old versions with maintenance releases > so it does not really have a "support cycle" in the sense that SPEC 0 > seems to describe. There can be a bugfix release shortly after a > feature release to fix some obvious regressions but that is basically > it. > > SymPy itself broadly tries to have wide version support for other > packages like numpy just because without listing them as hard > dependencies there is no way to indicate which versions sympy is > compatible with. There is no way to put version constraints on > optional dependencies in pip/PyPI land. > > Oscar > > On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 at 14:24, Anton Akhmerov <anton.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > There is now SPEC 0, a SciPy-community-wide standard for versions of > different packages that developers should aim supporting, see > https://scientific-python.org/specs/spec-0000/ > > > > I believe Sympy is the biggest package missing from SPEC 0, and I've > asked the maintainers of SPEC 0 what is the best way to proceed ( > https://discuss.scientific-python.org/t/spec-0-include-sympy/975?u=akhmerov). > They appear to welcome the idea and recommended to reach out via this > mailing list. > > > > So here's the question I'd like to know (as someone authoring software > that depends on Sympy): would Sympy like to join SPEC 0? > > > > Thank you for your consideration, > > Anton > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "sympy" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to sympy+un...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/e21d2db6-8ac4-4b01-a92c-7e49eb591146n%40googlegroups.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/abcea775-f3aa-45c0-883e-ceec9482cc6cn%40googlegroups.com.
