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jjhelmus / nmrglue

A module for working with NMR data in Python
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Proposal: release version 0.8.0 and drop support for Python 2.7 and Python < 3.6 #128

Closed jjhelmus closed 3 years ago

jjhelmus commented 3 years ago

It has been a while since the last release of nmrglue. Version 0.7.0 was release in Feb, 2019. There was been a number of changes since that release and I think it would be good to make a 0.8.0 release.

Python 2.7 reached it's end of life at the beginning of this year, 2020, and is no longer supported by the CPython core developers. Version of Python < 3.6 have also reached end-of-life. The Scientific Python/PyData community has also stopped supporting Python 2.7 and older version of Python 3. NEP 29 in particular recommends that the community support Python>=3.7 as of Jun 23, 2020.

Given this I am proposing on making a 0.8.0 release next week with the expectation that this will be the last release to support Python 2.7 and Python <3.6. Note that NEP 29 would recommend Python <3.7 but supporting 3.6 is low effort. After the release Python 2 code can be remove from nmrglue and newer Python 3 syntax can be added.

If anyone has concerns about this it would be good to voice them here. If there are no concerns I will cut the 0.8.0 release on Tuesday Oct 27.

kaustubhmote commented 3 years ago

This sounds great. I was hoping to finish adding documentation for new features and changes before v0.8, but it seems unlikely to be be completed soon. One thing that I think should be added is a changelog. I don't think we have this for any of the previous releases. You have any suggestions as to where this should go?

jjhelmus commented 3 years ago

I agree that is it time to keep a changelog, a CHANGELOG.txt file in the root directory seems like a reasonable place for this. I will put one together shortly.