On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Travis Oliphant <tra...@continuum.io>wrote:
> > > > My own plan for the near term would be as follows: > > > > 1) Put in the experimental option and get the 1.7 release out. This gets > us through the next couple of months and keeps things moving. > > > > The "experimental" option does not solve the problem which is that the > ndarray object now has masked fields which changes the fundamental nature > of an ndarray for a lot of downstream users that really have no idea what > has just happened. I don't see how this has been addressed by any > proposal except for the one I have suggested which allows a masked array > object and a regular ndarray to co-exist for a time. I doubt that the > proposal actually helps get 1.7 out any faster either as there are multiple > experimental APIs that would have to be created to pull it off on both the > C and Python level. > So, remove them in 1.8 and try something else. With experimental (say in site.cfg), the base array could even be different. I don't see the problem here. Think big. <snip> Chuck
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