Hi everybody, Robert K, Chuck H, Stefan VdW, Jarrod M, David C, and I had a nice discussion about the future directions of NumPy. We resolved some things and would like community feedback on them if there are opinions.
* we will be moving to time-based releases (at least 2 times a year -- November / May) with major changes not accepted about 4 weeks before the release. * The releases will be numbered major.minor.bugfix * There will be no ABI changes in minor releases * There will be no API changes in bugfix releases * Any API changes in minor releases will be done in a backward compatible fashion (possibly with deprecations). * Thus 1.2 will not break ABI compatibility but will add new API features. * We will push the generalized ufuncs off to 1.3 * NumPy 2.0 will be a library and will not automagically import numpy.fft * We will suggest that other libraries use from numpy import fft instead of import numpy as np; np.fft * We will apply most of Andrew Dalke's speed up patches but will keep ctypeslib import * We will remove automatic import of numpy.doc from trunk * NumPy 1.2 will come out shortly after the conference (rc1 on Sunday). * SciPy 0.7b1 will come out after the sprints. If there is anything else I missed from those who were there, please let us all know. By the way, as promised, the NumPy book is now available for download and the source to the book is checked in to the numpy SVN tree: http://svn.scipy.org/svn/numpy/trunk/numpy/doc/numpybook Best regards, -Travis _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
