Re:NumPy 2.0.0
by sestep on Sunday June 16, 2024 @11:25PM
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Could you elaborate further on this? Is it not the case that they'll still need to support numpy 1.x for at least the near-term future? My understanding was the parent comment was specifically talking about the technical difficulty of multiple versions for the same Python package, not the social problem of project and community management across breaking changes.
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For the near term future, they can use the latest 1 version
Yes, agreed they’ll need to support 1.x for (probably) quite a while, depending on API and interface changes between major versions.
My point, or at least the point I had in mind, was that the social and technical go together in a lot of subtle and sometimes surprising ways; in this case, I’d bet the idea of a second package name a) is a bad one because it’s likely to create differing community expectations about whether or not it’s okay to keep using the 1.0 package, and b) would let people feel okay not upgrading for a while / demanding security and bug fix point releases on 1.x longer than if the package itself just updates its major version.