Re: [Numpy-discussion] NEP mask code and the 1.7 release

2012-04-23 Thread Ralf Gommers
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Nathaniel Smith n...@pobox.com wrote: We need to decide what to do with the NA masking code currently in master, vis-a-vis the 1.7 release. While this code is great at what it is, we don't actually have consensus yet that it's the best way to give our users

Re: [Numpy-discussion] NEP mask code and the 1.7 release

2012-04-23 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Ralf Gommers ralf.gomm...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Nathaniel Smith n...@pobox.com wrote: We need to decide what to do with the NA masking code currently in master, vis-a-vis the 1.7 release. While this code is great at what it

Re: [Numpy-discussion] NEP mask code and the 1.7 release

2012-04-23 Thread Chris Barker
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Nathaniel Smith n...@pobox.com wrote: Right, this part is specifically about ABI compatibility, not API compatibility -- segfaults would only occur for extension libraries that were compiled against one version of numpy and then used with a different version.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] NEP mask code and the 1.7 release

2012-04-23 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Chris Barker chris.bar...@noaa.gov wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Nathaniel Smith n...@pobox.com wrote: Right, this part is specifically about ABI compatibility, not API compatibility -- segfaults would only occur for extension libraries that were

Re: [Numpy-discussion] NEP mask code and the 1.7 release

2012-04-23 Thread Ralf Gommers
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Nathaniel Smith n...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Ralf Gommers ralf.gomm...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Nathaniel Smith n...@pobox.com wrote: We need to decide what to do with the NA masking code

[Numpy-discussion] NEP mask code and the 1.7 release

2012-04-22 Thread Nathaniel Smith
We need to decide what to do with the NA masking code currently in master, vis-a-vis the 1.7 release. While this code is great at what it is, we don't actually have consensus yet that it's the best way to give our users what they want/need -- or even an appropriate way. So we need to figure out

Re: [Numpy-discussion] NEP mask code and the 1.7 release

2012-04-22 Thread Charles R Harris
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Nathaniel Smith n...@pobox.com wrote: We need to decide what to do with the NA masking code currently in master, vis-a-vis the 1.7 release. While this code is great at what it is, we don't actually have consensus yet that it's the best way to give our users

Re: [Numpy-discussion] NEP mask code and the 1.7 release

2012-04-22 Thread Charles R Harris
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Nathaniel Smith n...@pobox.com wrote: We need to decide what to do with the NA masking code currently in master, vis-a-vis the 1.7 release. While this code is great at what