Re: [Numpy-discussion] Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-16 Thread David Cournapeau
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote: > > On Feb 14, 2012, at 3:32 AM, David Cournapeau wrote: > >> Hi Travis, >> >> It is great that some resources can be spent to have people paid to >> work on NumPy. Thank you for making that happen. >> >> I am slightly confused about roadmaps

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Warren Weckesser
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote: > > There is a mailing list for numfocus that you can sign up for if you would > like to be part of those discussions. Let me know if you would like more > information about that. I would like more information about (as would many oth

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Mark Wiebe
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Travis Oliphant wrote: > >Mostly I'm happy with the changes (after a cursory review). As I > expected, there are some real improvements.Of course, I haven't looked > at the changes that occur when the scalar being used does not fit in the > range of t

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Travis Oliphant
On Feb 14, 2012, at 3:32 AM, David Cournapeau wrote: > Hi Travis, > > It is great that some resources can be spent to have people paid to > work on NumPy. Thank you for making that happen. > > I am slightly confused about roadmaps for numpy 1.8 and 2.0. This > needs discussion on the ML, and ou

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread David Cournapeau
Hi Travis, It is great that some resources can be spent to have people paid to work on NumPy. Thank you for making that happen. I am slightly confused about roadmaps for numpy 1.8 and 2.0. This needs discussion on the ML, and our release manager currently is Ralf - he is the one who ultimately de

[Numpy-discussion] Updated differences between 1.5.1 to 1.6.1

2012-02-14 Thread Travis Oliphant
For reference, here is the table that shows the actual changes between 1.5.1 and 1.6.1 at least on 64-bit platforms in terms of type-casting. I updated the comparison code to throw out changes that are just "spelling differences" (i.e. where 1.6.1 chooses to create an output dtype with an 'L' c