<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">We had a conversation about this point yesterday, in fact I was the one that brought this point up. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Though in my mind I agree with you at first that it makes more sense to do this at 4.0, there are two reasons why we should wait until 4.1:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. gives users more time to prepare</div><div class="">2. gives python 2 people a chance to use the new features (especially demeshening) at least for one 4.x version</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 20, 2017, at 5:27 PM, Michael Zingale <<a href="mailto:michael.zingale@stonybrook.edu" class="">michael.zingale@stonybrook.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">my thought on this is that removing python 2 support should occur on a major release, not a point release. It seems odd that yt 4.0 supports both 2 and 3, but 4.1 drops python 2 support. Might be confusing for users.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Matthew Turk <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:matthewturk@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">matthewturk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi folks,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On the call yesterday, the topic of dropping support for Py2 came up. This site provides some context:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.python3statement.org/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.python3statement.<wbr class="">org/</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At present, we're planning to have a 3.4 release sometime in the early summer, and then aiming for a yt 4.0 sometime about six months later. yt 4.0 will have the demeshening.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A proposal was floated to have yt 4.0 be the last release that explicitly supports python 2, and then to "softly" drop support for python 2 during the cycle for yt 4.1, which would be about six months later, we anticipate. This would mean not testing on py2 anymore and potentially removing some of the shims and six calls to dual-support.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Some more discussion is in the meeting notes:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/yt-project/meeting-notes/blob/master/notes-20170419.md" target="_blank" class="">https://github.com/yt-project/<wbr class="">meeting-notes/blob/master/<wbr class="">notes-20170419.md</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don't know if this is something we should actively discuss yet, but I wanted to put it out there. I personally support this proposal.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Matt</div></div>
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