On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Mark Wiebe <mwwi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Charles R Harris < > charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Travis Oliphant >> <oliph...@enthought.com>wrote: >> >>> >>> It may make sense for a NumPy 1.6 to come out in March / April in the >>> interim. >>> >>> >> Pulling out the changes to attain backward compatibility isn't getting any >> easier. I'd rather shoot for 2.0 in June. What can the rest of us do to help >> move things along? >> > > Focusing on 2.0 makes sense to me too. Besides that, March/April is bad timing for me so someone else should volunteer to be the release manager if we go for a 1.6. I took a shot at fixing the ABI compatibility, and if PyArray_ArrFunc was > the main issue, then that might be done. An ABI compatible 1.6 with the > datetime and half types should be doable, just some extensions might get > confused if they encounter arrays made with the new data types. > > Even if you fixed the ABI incompatibility (I don't know enough about the issue to confirm that), I'm not sure how much value there is in a release with as main new feature two dtypes that are not going to work well with scipy/other binaries compiled against 1.5. Cheers, Ralf
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