ipython and python 2.x

[Artur Wroblewski]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Artur Wroblewski <wrobell at pld-linux.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Jacek Konieczny <jajcus at jajcus.net> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> 1. Last change in the spec was in October 2011 (for version 0.11).
> 2. Between 0.11 and 0.13 releases there were two IPython
>    versions - 0.12 and 0.12.1.
>
> IMHO, no one is interested in IPython for Python 2.x in our distro
> at the moment, so maintaining IPython for Python 2.x and 3.x is
> waste of time.
>
> If you still disagree I can put it into separate spec (ipython3.spec).

We agreed off-line on creating ipython3.spec - and it is done.

Regards,

w