When aproximately pyproj will upgrade to >=Proj 9.6.0?

[davidkhudaverdyan]

When approximately will PyProj upgrade to >=Proj 9.6.0?
I am waiting for a certain features available in Proj 9.6.0, more specifically, the support of EPSG:1132 "Coordinate Frame rotation full matrix (geocen)"
The latest version of pyproj is 3.7.2, with the version of Proj: 9.5.1

[djhoese]

The current plan is to jump straight to 9.7.0:

#1529

I could have sworn we had a 9.6.0 bundled version out, but looks like it was 9.5.1. Do note that pyproj comes with a version of PROJ bundled, but can also use any PROJ installed previously (ex. system PROJ) of you could use pyproj from a conda-forge based conda environment.

[davidkhudaverdyan]

Thank you @djhoese , thanks for the suggestion about custom usage against 9.6.1.
Do you have any estimates when the next release with the mentioned above PR will happen? Something like within the next half a year?

[djhoese]

@snowman2 was the one looking at the PROJ 9.7.0 update. If there are no big road blocks (ex. CI failing) we could always do it sooner. I think we had other things we wanted to put into a new release as starting in October Python 3.11 is no longer supported according to https://scientific-python.org/specs/spec-0000/ and I think numpy 2.0 will be the minimum supported version according to that site as well. With that in mind pyproj should be able to remove some long standing type conversion "workarounds" so we'd have to think about that.

I'm a big fan of release early release often even if I have trouble sticking to it. I personally would hope some time in October.

[snowman2]

@djhoese you're welcome to make a release if you have time. The build is working for the moment.

[djhoese]

Nice job cheating the system and removing the build @snowman2 ! I'm out of town and away from a computer for the weekend, but Sunday night might be possible. Otherwise Monday or whoever gets to it.

[snowman2]

😅. Don't worry about making a release soon unless you want it. Just making sure you know that I don't have any issues with making the next release and you are welcome to make one when you have a free moment.

[snowman2]

Wheel build broken in #1529 #1530. No release until that is fixed.