ipython and python 2.x

[Jacek Konieczny]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:47:01AM +0100, Artur Wroblewski wrote:
> I am planning to upgrade IPython to version 0.13, but for Python 3.x only.
> 
> Python 2.7 is the last 2.x release (released over 2 years ago), so
> IMHO it is pointless to maintain two versions at the moment.

There is still many software written in Python 2.7, there is still a lot
of development made using Python 2.7, as some libraries are still only
python2 and costs of porting some projects to python3 is too big to be
worth it. And IPython is a python development tool.

As long as we provide Python 2.7 package we should also provide ipython
for it. It may be the last IPython version available upstream for
Python2, but it should not be dropped all together just because Python
3.x is the current one.

Greets,
        Jacek