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wcsaxes has been merged into astropy!
http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/visualization/wcsaxes/index.html
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See if it's possible to support Astropy 0.2 #31

Closed astrofrog closed 10 years ago

cdeil commented 10 years ago

Is support for 0.2 and 0.3 really useful?

It seems to me that for a new affiliated package that is just starting out and is using coordinates requiring Astropy 0.4+ would be a good choice so that the SkyCoord class can be used?

ChrisBeaumont commented 10 years ago

From my perspective, the relevant question is how often developers should expect or require users to update astropy -- updating can be a pain point for casual python users, or users who aren't managing their own installation.

I like the rule of thumb that projects should be compatible with at least the previous 2 minor releases of their dependencies. I don't know if that's possible given the functionality that WCSAxes needs.

I think it would be really annoying to drop 0.3 support, before 0.4 even comes out!

astrofrog commented 10 years ago

I think it should be reasonably easy to support both. I think there are only very few places where the API changed as far as WCSAxes is concerned.

astrofrog commented 10 years ago

I'm going to close this. We can support 0.3 and 0.4 (once it's out)