Re: [matplotlib-devel] Renaming OSX wheels on pypi to make them more general

[Chris B. <chr...@no...>]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Matthew Brett <mat...@gm...>
wrote:

> > what is this going to do on OS-X 10.7 and 10.8  systems running homebrew
> or
> > macports pythons? It seems this list could get pretty long!
>
Yes, it could, but this list:
>
> so we would have to add all those if we wanted to support them...



> https://www.adium.im/sparkle/?year=2014&week=22&graph=bar#osVersion
>
>
very interesting stats! I wonder how representative those are? Makes we
think we can drop 32 bit support, too. Maybe the newest 2.7 py.org binaries
could be 64 bit only. It would simplify things a bit.


> suggests that 10.9 is the majority, and that 10.8 and 10.7 are only
> about 14 percent combined.  I guess a better case could be made for
> 10.6 (still 16 percent), but I wonder how many 10.6 hold-outs are
> updating their homebrew / macports numpies regularly.
>

not many -- it can be a really a pain to do so -- macports and homebrew
really expect you to have a recent compiler, which I think is difficult or
impossible to install on 10.6...

-Chris


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