I noticed that the Ports Collection and PKG binary repositories contain an abundance of libraries for Python2.7.x (denoted py27-* usually), however a lot less for Python 3.x.y. Off the top of my head I can think of at least 2 reasons for this trend:
1) Python 3 is a moving target and one would need to cover Python 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, etc.
2) Python 2.7.x is still fully supported so most Python projects can continue to rely on it.
That being said, I often have to use Python 2.7.x as either no libraries for Python 3.x are available from the Ports Collection (I'm talking about scientific computation modules like scipy, numpy, pandas, sklearn, etc. specifically) or they will not build for various reasons while installing through pip.
As a FreeBSD user and Python developer I was wondering whether it would useful for the FreeBSD community to give some of the computational Python 3 ports some "love"? I would like to do it anyway, but I would feel the more motivated if some sort of general interest was out there
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1) Python 3 is a moving target and one would need to cover Python 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, etc.
2) Python 2.7.x is still fully supported so most Python projects can continue to rely on it.
That being said, I often have to use Python 2.7.x as either no libraries for Python 3.x are available from the Ports Collection (I'm talking about scientific computation modules like scipy, numpy, pandas, sklearn, etc. specifically) or they will not build for various reasons while installing through pip.
As a FreeBSD user and Python developer I was wondering whether it would useful for the FreeBSD community to give some of the computational Python 3 ports some "love"? I would like to do it anyway, but I would feel the more motivated if some sort of general interest was out there
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