Release PyJulia 0.2?

[tkf]

Once #186, #187, #193, and #197 PRs in https://github.com/JuliaPy/pyjulia/milestone/1 are merged (they are relatively small PRs; #200 is a bit large), I think it's a good timing to release PyJulia 0.2. We can then drop Julia 0.6 support right after the release. What do you think?

@stevengj If you add me as a maintainer I can upload it to PyPI (or maybe you want to do it yourself?).

[stevengj]

I'm happy to add you as a maintainer.

[stevengj]

@tkf, what is your username on pypi.org? I assume this is you: https://pypi.org/user/tkf/

[tkf]

Yes, that's me.

[noahstier]

drop Julia 0.6

Dropping 0.6 support is dropping Debian/Ubuntu/Anaconda support (#185 ), please don't do this.

julialang.org has "you can easily use libraries from Python" on the front page and this will not be true for lots of people if 0.6 support is dropped.

[noahstier]

this will not be true for lots of people

Whoops, that will still be true. But still, those of us using Debian/Ubuntu/Anaconda, which I assume is a big fraction, are depending on PyJulia + Julia 0.6.

[tkf]

0.2 will support 0.6. Dropping support is just a future idea. Nobody is working on it ATM. But it should happen eventually.

I think supporting statically linked Python has to be done in "The Right Way"; i.e., by a proper support from julia core JuliaLang/julia#28518. Until then, I think python-jl CLI #200 is a good workaround. Alternatively, Ubuntu/Debian users can also use pyenv: #185 (comment).

[bstellato]

Are there any updates on this? The two remaining PRs seem to be ready to merge.
I am currently using pyjulia master with julia 1.0 and it works pretty well.

[tkf]

I actually want to merge a few more patches:
https://github.com/JuliaPy/pyjulia/milestone/1
But I think all of them are ready.

@stevengj Can I merge them and upload it to PyPI?

[stevengj]

Sure.

[tkf]

Thanks!

[tkf]

So I merged the PRs. I think I'll upload it soon but you can already try it via:

pip install https://github.com/JuliaPy/pyjulia/archive/master.zip#egg=julia

I prefer having some feedbacks especially for #200 to see if it really helps. Though maybe the easiest way to get feedbacks is to just release it :)

[YP-Ye]

I have met UnicodeDecodeError when I install the new version:
C:\Windows\System32>pip install https://github.com/JuliaPy/pyjulia/archive/maste
r.zip#egg=julia
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/simple/
Collecting julia from https://github.com/JuliaPy/pyjulia/archive/master.zip#egg=
julia
Downloading https://github.com/JuliaPy/pyjulia/archive/master.zip
| 768kB 411kB/s
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "C:\Users\YeYipeng\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-nh_kdme6\julia\setu
p.py", line 28, in
long_description = f.read()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'gbk' codec can't decode byte 0xa5 in position 688: ille
gal multibyte sequence