On Monday a crane company announces it’s pivoting to AI, followed by a quick 600% boost to its stock price. I wouldn’t even be surprised at this point.
How long will they host 4.6? Maybe longer for enterprise, but if you have a consumer subscription, you won't have a choice for long, if at all anymore.
I was trying to figure out earlier today how to get 4.6 to run in Claude Code, as part of the output it included "- Still fully supported — not scheduled for retirement until Feb 2027." Full caveat of, I don't know where it came up with this information, but as others have said, 4.5 is still available today and it is now 5, almost 6 months old.
Yes, but I mean... this is Python we're talking about. There are several build systems / coordinators written in Python (scons, colcon, etc) not to mention Python packages that themselves contain compiled bits written in other languages.
I know nowadays we have formalized, cross-platform ways to build bindings (scikit-build-core, etc), but that is a relatively recent development; for a long ass time it was pretty common place to have a setup.py full of shell-outs to native toolchains and build tools. It's not hard to imagine a person in that headspace feeling like being able to pull that stuff directly from pypi would be an upgrade over trying to detect it missing and instruct the user to install it before trying again.
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