Disable python 3.4 and enable python 3.6

I have not seen anything fail on python 3.4 but work on python 3.5. If we disable these builds, we will save a lot of time. We can still keep it in the nightlies to make sure everything is working.

ping @andre.anjos @tiago.pereira @pkorshunov @mguenther

What are the conda-forge supported versions?

2.7 3.4 3.5

After a deep thought, I think we could remove Python 3.4 from most of our packages. I would keep it running on the nightlies (and for Bob) though.

I'm cool with this

Since Python 3.4 is still a supported distro in conda-forge, I propose we just insert "only: - master" on Python 3.4 builds. This will make the packages build on branches only using Python 2.7 and Python 3.5, while keeping a full check for the master branch.

mentioned in commit 66081803

mentioned in merge request !30 (closed)

Given that conda-forge introduced python 3.6 too, we might want to discuss this more and add support for 3.6 at the same time.

https://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/changelog

Anaconda 4.3 will be the last release which supports Python 3.4. We will discontinue regular Python 3.4 package updates in the next release.

changed title from Proposal: Disable python 3.4 to Disable python 3.4 and python 3.6

changed title from Disable python 3.4 and python 3.6 to Disable python 3.4 and enable python 3.6

With the recent fix in bob.buildout and adding python 3.6 packages in bob.conda: https://gitlab.idiap.ch/bob/bob.conda/commit/b097e5f689fc40302644429adb9fc0c581f0f518, our packages are compiling for python 3.6 too. @andre.anjos would you be kind and make the python 3.6 environments available on CI machines? (it's not gonna work out of the box probably)

In order to get this done, we have to, somehow, fix https://github.com/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/issues/1644

You might want to look at https://github.com/conda-forge/tensorflow-feedstock/pull/12 too.

That PR is stuck for the past 5 months...

A revamped bob-devel conda meta package is now in place, with support for Python 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6 and numpy 1.12.x. This has been used to create a bob-devel-py36 environment on the CIs.

changed milestone to %May 2017 Hackathon

added Easy label

All good, I think it is safe to close this one.

closed