Re: [Numpy-discussion] Moving away from svn ?

2008-01-05 Thread David Cournapeau
Travis E. Oliphant wrote: > David M. Cooke wrote: >> On Jan 4, 2008, at 13:58 , Fernando Perez wrote: >> >> >>> My vote so far is for hg, for performance reasons but also partly >>> because sage and sympy already use it, two projects I'm likely to >>> interact a lot with and that are squarely in

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Moving away from svn ?

2008-01-05 Thread Christopher Barker
David Cournapeau wrote: >> 4) SVN is very, very, popular. Lots of folks use it, they use it on all >> common platforms, and there are tons of clients for it. I work with a >> bunch of folks that really don't like a command line (for programmers, I >> think that's just plain weird, but there you go)

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Moving away from svn ?

2008-01-05 Thread Robert Kern
David Cournapeau wrote: > On Jan 5, 2008 4:38 PM, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It's worth noting that SVN 1.5 will be tracking such information. But that >> release is a long ways off. >> > My understanding, but I do not follow svn much, is that in 1.5, you > will only get what svnmer

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Moving away from svn ?

2008-01-05 Thread David Cournapeau
On Jan 5, 2008 4:38 PM, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Barker wrote: > > hmmm. Everyone posting so far seems to be positive on this idea, but I'm > > not so sure. A few thoughts: > > > > 1) change is bad. It may be worth it, but this decision needs to be made > > very differently th

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Moving away from svn ?

2008-01-05 Thread David Cournapeau
On Jan 5, 2008 4:21 PM, Chris Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hmmm. Everyone posting so far seems to be positive on this idea, but I'm > not so sure. A few thoughts: > > 1) change is bad. It may be worth it, but this decision needs to be made > very differently than if we were starting from scr

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Moving away from svn ?

2008-01-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
Fernando Perez gmail.com> writes: > Incidentally, the emacs guys seem to be worrying about the same thing: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/85893 > > If they actually do the work of comparing tools, that work may be > useful for us. I'm pretty sure that any tool that can handle the >

Re: [Numpy-discussion] branches/maskedarray patch + lost password

2008-01-05 Thread Stefan van der Walt
Hi Pierre On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 04:30:47PM -0500, Pierre GM wrote: > Here's a patch to the current version of svn/numpy/branches/maskedarray, that > corrects several bugs. Those tests at the end of core.py should be included in the test suite before we commit (otherwise they won't be ran by nu

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Moving away from svn ?

2008-01-05 Thread Robert Kern
Bill Baxter wrote: > On Jan 6, 2008 8:25 AM, Stefan van der Walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I recall something you said to David last week, regarding merges with >> SVN: that a person never knows how to do it until *after* you've done >> it! We often make branches in scipy and numpy, and stand

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Moving away from svn ?

2008-01-05 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Jan 6, 2008 12:55 AM, Bill Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 6, 2008 8:25 AM, Stefan van der Walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I recall something you said to David last week, regarding merges with > > SVN: that a person never knows how to do it until *after* you've done > > it! We of

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Moving away from svn ?

2008-01-05 Thread Bill Baxter
On Jan 6, 2008 8:25 AM, Stefan van der Walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recall something you said to David last week, regarding merges with > SVN: that a person never knows how to do it until *after* you've done > it! We often make branches in scipy and numpy, and stand a lot to > gain from a d

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Moving away from svn ?

2008-01-05 Thread Fernando Perez
I'd like to briefly provide a different perspective on this question, which is not a technical one but a more social/process one. It seems to me (but I could be wrong; this is opinion, not research!) that a DVCS encourages a more open participation model for newcomers. Since anyone with a checkout

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Moving away from svn ?

2008-01-05 Thread Stefan van der Walt
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 03:00:21PM -0600, Travis E. Oliphant wrote: > I suspect there are others with serious reservations about jumping off > of SVN just now (just when a lot of people have finally figured out how > to use it). I recall something you said to David last week, regarding merges wi

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Error importing from numpy.matlib

2008-01-05 Thread Steve Lianoglou
> This is the behaviour you'd get if the module's __all__ attribute > lists objects which don't exist in the module. Looks like a regression > in r4659; fixed in SVN now as r4674. Thanks! -steve ___ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.o

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Moving away from svn ?

2008-01-05 Thread Travis E. Oliphant
David M. Cooke wrote: > On Jan 4, 2008, at 13:58 , Fernando Perez wrote: > > >> My vote so far is for hg, for performance reasons but also partly >> because sage and sympy already use it, two projects I'm likely to >> interact a lot with and that are squarely in line with the >> ipython/numpy/sc

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Moving away from svn ?

2008-01-05 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Jan 5, 2008 8:15 PM, Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 5, 2008 12:08 PM, David M. Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 4, 2008, at 13:58 , Fernando Perez wrote: > > > > > My vote so far is for hg, for performance reasons but also partly > > > because sage and sympy alread

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Moving away from svn ?

2008-01-05 Thread Fernando Perez
On Jan 5, 2008 12:08 PM, David M. Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 4, 2008, at 13:58 , Fernando Perez wrote: > > > My vote so far is for hg, for performance reasons but also partly > > because sage and sympy already use it, two projects I'm likely to > > interact a lot with and that are sq

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Moving away from svn ?

2008-01-05 Thread David M. Cooke
On Jan 4, 2008, at 13:58 , Fernando Perez wrote: > My vote so far is for hg, for performance reasons but also partly > because sage and sympy already use it, two projects I'm likely to > interact a lot with and that are squarely in line with the > ipython/numpy/scipy/matplotlib world. Since they

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Error importing from numpy.matlib

2008-01-05 Thread David M. Cooke
On Jan 3, 2008, at 18:29 , Steve Lianoglou wrote: > > Anyway, somewhere in my codebase (for a long time now) I'm doing: > > from numpy.matlib import * > > Now, when I try to use this code, or just type that in the > interpreter, I get this message: > > AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribu

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Nasty bug using pre-initialized arrays

2008-01-05 Thread Zachary Pincus
> There are two related hierarchies of datatypes: different kinds > (integer, > floating point, complex floating point) and different precisions > within a given > kind (int8, int16, int32, int64). The term "downcasting" should > probably be > reserved for the latter only. > > It seems to me

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Nasty bug using pre-initialized arrays

2008-01-05 Thread Stuart Brorson
>> I wasn't at all arguing that having complex data chopped and >> downcast into an int or float container was the right thing to do. > > indeed, it is an clearly bad thing to do -- but a bug magnet? I'm not so > sure, surely, anyone that had any idea at all what they were doing with > complex numb