Re: Couldn't install numpy on Python 2.7

On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 at 06:55, Thomas Passin via Python-list
<python-list@python.org> wrote:

The project cannot move to a Python-3 compatible version because Jython
3.xx doesn't exist and may never exist.  The saving grace is that my
project doesn't have to use packages like numpy, scipy, and so forth.

Exactly. If you don't need to ALSO use something newer, there's
nothing stopping you from continuing with the old version. And that's
fine! As long as you're okay with not getting updates, you're welcome
to do whatever you like - including running Windows 98 on an ancient
PC and editing your documents on that. (Yes, I know someone who did
that, long after Win 98 was dead to most of us.)

Thunderbird and everything else worked perfectly for me during that
week.  True, there were a few Windows-only programs I missed, but I used
other similar programs even if I didn't like them as much.

It's true. And there ARE solutions to that, although it's a bit rough
trying to run them on low hardware (Wine works nicely for some
programs, less so for others; VirtualBox is really not gonna be happy
with a small fraction of your limited RAM). But if your needs are
simple, even a crazily low-end system is sufficient.

It's amazing
how little resources Linux installs need, even with a GUI.  Of course,
4GB RAM is limiting whether you are on Linux or Windows - you can't
avoid shuffling all those GUI bits around - but with a little care it
worked great.  And with the external SSD the laptop was a lot snappier
than it ever was when it was new.

One of the big differences with Linux is that you have a choice of
desktop environments, from "none" (just boot straight into a terminal)
on up. Some of them are a bit of a compromise in terms of how well you
can get your work done, but let's say you had an even MORE ancient
system with maybe one gig of memory... I'd rather have a super-light
desktop environment even if it doesn't have everything I'm normally
accustomed to!

ChrisA