Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-12 Thread Pauli Virtanen
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 18:23, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: What about python version? Do we want to bump that up from 2.4? Only if it were *really* necessary for the Python 3 port. Otherwise, I would resist the urge. I don't think it's necessary for that. -- Pauli

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-12 Thread Sebastian Haase
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Pauli Virtanen p...@iki.fi wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 18:23, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: What about python version? Do we want to bump that up from 2.4? Only if it were *really* necessary for the Python 3 port. Otherwise, I would

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-12 Thread Darren Dale
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:16 AM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jp wrote: Charles R Harris wrote: I don't see any struct definitions there, it looks clean. Any struct defined outside numpy/core/include is fine to change at will as far as ABI is concerned anyway, so no need to check

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-12 Thread Fernando Perez
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: Here's the problem that I don't think many people appreciate: logical arguments suck just as much as personal experience in answering these questions. You can make perfectly structured arguments until you are blue in the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-12 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Fernando Perez fperez@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: Here's the problem that I don't think many people appreciate: logical arguments suck just as much as personal experience in answering these

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Stéfan van der Walt
On 11 February 2010 09:52, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: we don't stand much to lose by naming this next ABI-breaking release 1.5. Except the accepted policy will be discarded and we will have to start all over again. We can't change policy on a whim and still maintain

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread David Cournapeau
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: ...this should be purely technical IMO. There are well established rules here: Simple, eh. The version should be 2.0. It would be simple if it were not for the obligation of getting it soon, in a matter of

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, Just a comment: I would like to point out that there is (necessarily) some arbitrary threshold to who is being recognized as people who are actively writing the code. Over the last year, I have posted fixes for multiple bugs and extended the ufunc wrapping mechanisms (__array_prepare__)

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Darren Dale
2010/2/11 Stéfan van der Walt ste...@sun.ac.za: On 11 February 2010 09:52, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: Simple, eh. The version should be 2.0. I'm going with the element of least surprise: no one will be surprised when 1.5 is released with ABI changes I'll buy you a

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Stéfan van der Walt
On 11 February 2010 15:38, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/2/11 Stéfan van der Walt ste...@sun.ac.za: On 11 February 2010 09:52, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: Simple, eh. The version should be 2.0. I'm going with the element of least surprise: no one will be

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Charles R Harris
2010/2/11 Stéfan van der Walt ste...@sun.ac.za On 11 February 2010 15:38, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/2/11 Stéfan van der Walt ste...@sun.ac.za: On 11 February 2010 09:52, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: Simple, eh. The version should be 2.0. I'm going

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Travis Oliphant
On Feb 11, 2010, at 2:05 AM, David Cournapeau wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: ...this should be purely technical IMO. There are well established rules here: Simple, eh. The version should be 2.0. It would be simple if it were

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread David Cournapeau
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Travis Oliphant oliph...@enthought.com wrote:  I don't want to go the route of marking things experimental which David's pro-1.5 vote seemed to advocate. In that case, I prefer the new release to be marked as 2.0. There will then be no new numpy 1.4.x, and

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread David Cournapeau
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/2/11 Stéfan van der Walt ste...@sun.ac.za On 11 February 2010 15:38, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/2/11 Stéfan van der Walt ste...@sun.ac.za: On 11 February 2010 09:52, Charles R Harris

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Pierre GM
On Feb 11, 2010, at 5:57 PM, David Cournapeau wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/2/11 Stéfan van der Walt ste...@sun.ac.za On 11 February 2010 15:38, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/2/11 Stéfan van der Walt

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi,  I don't want to go the route of marking things experimental which David's pro-1.5 vote seemed to advocate.   From what I gathered, Pauli, David, and I were 1.5 with various degrees of opinion and Charles, and Robert are 2.0.  Others that I know about:  Stephan is 1.5, Jarrod is 2.0,

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Pauli Virtanen
to, 2010-02-11 kello 16:38 -0600, Travis Oliphant kirjoitti: [clip] Pauli, David, and Stephan, how opposed are you to numbering the next release as NumPy 2.0 with no experimental tag or the like. If you three could also agree. I could see my way through to supporting a NumPy 2.0 release.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Jarrod Millman
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Pierre GM pgmdevl...@gmail.com wrote: Jus to make sure I understand: * 2.0 will be w/ datetime support and corresponds to the current trunk * 1.5 will be w/o datetime support ? I may have misunderstood, but my understanding is that there will be no 1.5 release

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Jarrod Millman mill...@berkeley.eduwrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Pierre GM pgmdevl...@gmail.com wrote: Jus to make sure I understand: * 2.0 will be w/ datetime support and corresponds to the current trunk * 1.5 will be w/o datetime support ? I

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Robert Kern
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 18:23, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: What about python version? Do we want to bump that up from 2.4? Only if it were *really* necessary for the Python 3 port. Otherwise, I would resist the urge. -- Robert Kern I have come to believe that the whole

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Travis Oliphant
On Feb 11, 2010, at 6:25 PM, Robert Kern wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 18:23, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: What about python version? Do we want to bump that up from 2.4? Only if it were *really* necessary for the Python 3 port. Otherwise, I would resist the urge.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Christopher Barker
One question: Does anyone think it's a good idea to provide any support for numpy version selection, similar to wxPython's wxversion? What it does is allow an installation to have default version that gets imported with import wx. Optionally, other versions can be installed, and selected by

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread David Cournapeau
Robert Kern wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 18:23, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: What about python version? Do we want to bump that up from 2.4? Only if it were *really* necessary for the Python 3 port. Otherwise, I would resist the urge. Me too, on the basis that 2.4

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Robert Kern
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 18:46, Christopher Barker chris.bar...@noaa.gov wrote: One question: Does anyone think it's a good idea to provide any support for numpy version selection, similar to wxPython's wxversion? -1. It complicates packaging and distribution substantially. -- Robert Kern I

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread David Cournapeau
Charles R Harris wrote: I do think a 1.4.1 should be released without the datetime changes just so there would be an updated version out there for slow adopters. We wouldn't maintain it, though, it would be the end of the 1.x line. We could make a source release - we could do it from the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Travis Oliphant
On Feb 11, 2010, at 7:03 PM, David Cournapeau wrote: Charles R Harris wrote: I do think a 1.4.1 should be released without the datetime changes just so there would be an updated version out there for slow adopters. We wouldn't maintain it, though, it would be the end of the 1.x line.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:03 PM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jpwrote: Charles R Harris wrote: I do think a 1.4.1 should be released without the datetime changes just so there would be an updated version out there for slow adopters. We wouldn't maintain it, though, it would be the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread josef . pktd
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:23 PM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jp wrote: Travis Oliphant wrote: This is true, but you could make a NumPy 1.4.x binary and the old SciPy binary would still presumably work. There is still the cython issue, although it concerns only some packages (stats

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread David Cournapeau
josef.p...@gmail.com wrote: So 1.4.1 wouldn't resolve the cython issue, packages that use cython still would need to be refreshed and recompiled, but non-cython packages should run without recompiling? It is impossible to solve the cython issue in numpy. The only solution is to regenerate

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread josef . pktd
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:36 PM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jp wrote: josef.p...@gmail.com wrote: So 1.4.1  wouldn't resolve the cython issue, packages that use cython still would need to be refreshed and recompiled, but non-cython packages should run without recompiling? It is

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread David Cournapeau
josef.p...@gmail.com wrote: scipy is relatively easy to compile, I was thinking also of h5py, pytables and pymc (b/c of pytables), none of them are importing with numpy 1.4.0 because of the cython issue. As I said, all of them will have to be regenerated with cython 0.12.1. There is no other

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:00 PM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jpwrote: josef.p...@gmail.com wrote: scipy is relatively easy to compile, I was thinking also of h5py, pytables and pymc (b/c of pytables), none of them are importing with numpy 1.4.0 because of the cython issue. As I

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread David Cournapeau
Charles R Harris wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:00 PM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jp mailto:da...@silveregg.co.jp wrote: josef.p...@gmail.com mailto:josef.p...@gmail.com wrote: scipy is relatively easy to compile, I was thinking also of h5py, pytables and

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:12 PM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jpwrote: Charles R Harris wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:00 PM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jp mailto:da...@silveregg.co.jp wrote: josef.p...@gmail.com mailto:josef.p...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Darren Dale
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:12 PM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jp wrote: Charles R Harris wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:00 PM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jp

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Travis Oliphant
Is it just the metadata element in the dtype structure or were other objects affected. -- (mobile phone of) Travis Oliphant Enthought, Inc. 1-512-536-1057 http://www.enthought.com On Feb 11, 2010, at 9:12 PM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jp wrote: Charles R Harris wrote: On Thu,

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:12 PM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jp wrote: Charles R Harris wrote: On Thu, Feb

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread David Cournapeau
Charles R Harris wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:12 PM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jp mailto:da...@silveregg.co.jp wrote: Charles R Harris wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:00 PM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jp mailto:da...@silveregg.co.jp

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Darren Dale
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:12 PM, David

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread David Cournapeau
Charles R Harris wrote: I don't see any struct definitions there, it looks clean. Any struct defined outside numpy/core/include is fine to change at will as far as ABI is concerned anyway, so no need to check anything :) David ___

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:03 PM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jpwrote: Charles R Harris wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:12 PM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jp mailto:da...@silveregg.co.jp wrote: Charles R Harris wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:16 PM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jpwrote: Charles R Harris wrote: I don't see any struct definitions there, it looks clean. Any struct defined outside numpy/core/include is fine to change at will as far as ABI is concerned anyway, so no need to

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread David Cournapeau
Charles R Harris wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:03 PM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jp mailto:da...@silveregg.co.jp wrote: Charles R Harris wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:12 PM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jp mailto:da...@silveregg.co.jp

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:28 PM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jpwrote: Charles R Harris wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:03 PM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jp mailto:da...@silveregg.co.jp wrote: Charles R Harris wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-11 Thread David Cournapeau
Charles R Harris wrote: Well, so it goes. I don't see any reasonable way to fix that. I wonder how recent the cython size check is? See related discussion on Cython ML - the problem is known for some time. That's when cython fixed the error into a warning that I started looking into the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-10 Thread Travis Oliphant
On Feb 8, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Darren Dale wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Jarrod Millman mill...@berkeley.edu wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: Should the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-10 Thread Pierre GM
On Feb 10, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote: The list I proposed for deciding the issue was the group I am aware of having written significant code for NumPy.I suppose I un-intentionally left off Pierre GM who contributed masked array support. We need some way of making a

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-10 Thread Darren Dale
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Travis Oliphant oliph...@enthought.com wrote: On Feb 8, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Darren Dale wrote: I definitely should have counted to 100 before sending that. It wasn't helpful and I apologize. I actually found this quite funny.    I need to apologize if my

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-10 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi,   NumPy decisions in the past have been made by me and other people who are writing the code.   I think we have tried pretty hard to listen to all points of view before doing anything.    I think there are many examples of this.   I hope this previous history alleviates some concern that

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-10 Thread Christopher Barker
Matthew Brett wrote: Only a small point, but, while I completely agree that the version number is a bike-shed, that's what I meant when I said it... I don't think that's true of the ABI breakage, well, yes and no. On the one hand, it's very big deal -- not the color of the shed. On the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-10 Thread David Cournapeau
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Travis Oliphant oliph...@enthought.com wrote: Christopher's argument that having a NumPy 2.0 sets expectations for keeping 1.4 and 2.0 is a strong one in my mind.   The policy of coupling ABI and version numbers makes less and less sense to me as I hear the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-10 Thread Stéfan van der Walt
On 11 February 2010 03:22, David Cournapeau courn...@gmail.com wrote: I think one issue with versions is that they convey multiple things at the same time. The number itself conveys an idea of progress and features - the bigger the change in the number, the bigger changes are expected by

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-10 Thread Charles R Harris
2010/2/11 Stéfan van der Walt ste...@sun.ac.za On 11 February 2010 03:22, David Cournapeau courn...@gmail.com wrote: I think one issue with versions is that they convey multiple things at the same time. The number itself conveys an idea of progress and features - the bigger the change in

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread David Cournapeau
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:23 AM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jp wrote: Jarrod Millman wrote:  Just to be clear, I would prefer to see the ABI-breaking release be called 2.0.  I don't see why we have to get the release out in three weeks, though.  I think it would be better to use this

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Jarrod Millman
I went ahead and set the default download for NumPy back to the 1.3.0 release on sourceforge. I also added a news item stating that 1.4.0 has temporarily been pulled due to the unintended ABI break pending a decision by the developers. Currently, the 1.4.0 release can still be accessed if you go

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Charles R Harris
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Jarrod Millman mill...@berkeley.eduwrote: I went ahead and set the default download for NumPy back to the 1.3.0 release on sourceforge. I also added a news item stating that 1.4.0 has temporarily been pulled due to the unintended ABI break pending a decision

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Travis Oliphant
On Feb 8, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Jarrod Millman mill...@berkeley.edu wrote: I went ahead and set the default download for NumPy back to the 1.3.0 release on sourceforge. I also added a news item stating that 1.4.0 has temporarily been

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Charles R Harris
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Travis Oliphant oliph...@enthought.comwrote: On Feb 8, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Jarrod Millman mill...@berkeley.eduwrote: I went ahead and set the default download for NumPy back to the 1.3.0 release on

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Charles R Harris
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Travis Oliphant oliph...@enthought.comwrote: On Feb 8, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Jarrod Millman mill...@berkeley.eduwrote:

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Jarrod Millman
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: Should the release containing the datetime/hasobject changes be called a) 1.5.0 b) 2.0.0 My vote goes to b. Jarrod ___ NumPy-Discussion mailing list

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Darren Dale
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Jarrod Millman mill...@berkeley.edu wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: Should the release containing the datetime/hasobject changes be called a) 1.5.0 b) 2.0.0 My vote goes to b. You don't matter. Nor do

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Robert Kern
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 16:05, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Jarrod Millman mill...@berkeley.edu wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: Should the release containing the datetime/hasobject changes be

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Darren Dale
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Jarrod Millman mill...@berkeley.edu wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: Should the release containing the datetime/hasobject changes be

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 05:08:17PM -0500, Darren Dale wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Jarrod Millman mill...@berkeley.edu wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Matthew Brett
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 16:05, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Jarrod Millman mill...@berkeley.edu wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Jarrod Millman mill...@berkeley.edu wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: Should the release containing the datetime/hasobject changes be called a) 1.5.0 b) 2.0.0 My vote goes to b. I guess Travis'

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Robert Kern
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 16:10, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 16:05, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Jarrod Millman mill...@berkeley.edu wrote: On

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Jarrod Millman
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: You don't matter. Nor do I. I definitely should have counted to 100 before sending that. It wasn't helpful and I apologize. No worries, your first email brought a smile to my face.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Matthew Brett
Trust me, the steering committee would much prefer not to decide anything by any means. I do trust you ;) Looking at the emails, it seems to me there's quite a strong consensus. You don't mean that the steering committee is needed when people on the steering committee don't agree with the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Robert Kern
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 16:27, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: Trust me, the steering committee would much prefer not to decide anything by any means. I do trust you ;) Looking at the emails, it seems to me there's quite a strong consensus. No, there isn't. Consensus means

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Matthew Brett
No, there isn't. Consensus means everyone, not just a strong majority. http://producingoss.com/en/consensus-democracy.html I stand corrected. I meant then, that there's a strong majority agreement on what to do. See you, Matthew ___

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Robert Kern
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 16:32, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: No, there isn't. Consensus means everyone, not just a strong majority. http://producingoss.com/en/consensus-democracy.html I stand corrected. I meant then, that there's a strong majority agreement on what to do. That

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Tommy Grav
On Feb 8, 2010, at 5:38 PM, David Cournapeau wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Travis Oliphant oliph...@enthought.com wrote: I think we need to make that decision now. It seems to have gotten hung up in conflicts that need to be resolved. How should we go about it? Does the numpy

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, That is correct. And having failed to find a consensus solution and with several of the people doing the actual work disagreeing (which is neither you, nor I, nor Darren, nor most readers on this list who have weighed in on the discussion phase and may feel miffed about not getting a

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Robert Kern
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 17:03, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, That is correct. And having failed to find a consensus solution and with several of the people doing the actual work disagreeing (which is neither you, nor I, nor Darren, nor most readers on this list who have

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, I'm continuing only because, the discussion has generated some heat, and I think part of that heat comes from the perception that the excellent community spirit of the project is somewhat undermined by the feeling that reasonable arguments are not being fully heard. How does one get

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Christopher Barker
Charles R Harris wrote: Should the release containing the datetime/hasobject changes be called a) 1.5.0 b) 2.0.0 Classic bicycle shed designing... but I like designing bicycle sheds, so I'll make this comment: 2.0 appears to the average user to be a big enough deal that they might expect

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Robert Kern
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 17:43, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm continuing only because, the discussion has generated some heat, and I think part of that heat comes from the perception that the excellent community spirit of the project is somewhat undermined by the feeling

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Darren Dale
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: Here's the problem that I don't think many people appreciate: logical arguments suck just as much as personal experience in answering these questions. You can make perfectly structured arguments until you are blue in the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Robert Kern
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 18:43, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: Here's the problem that I don't think many people appreciate: logical arguments suck just as much as personal experience in answering these questions.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread David Cournapeau
Bruce Southey wrote: Not that I actually know much about it, but I thought that datetime is a 'rather large feature' difference both in terms of functionality and code. Definitely it will allow a unified date/time usage across various scikits and other projects that have time functions.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread David Cournapeau
Darren Dale wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: Here's the problem that I don't think many people appreciate: logical arguments suck just as much as personal experience in answering these questions. You can make perfectly structured arguments until

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Charles R Harris
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:01 PM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jpwrote: Darren Dale wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: Here's the problem that I don't think many people appreciate: logical arguments suck just as much as personal experience

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Ryan May
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Gael Varoquaux gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 05:08:17PM -0500, Darren Dale wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Jarrod Millman mill...@berkeley.edu wrote:

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Darren Dale
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 18:43, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: Here's the problem that I don't think many people appreciate: logical arguments

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, Is that a real question? Absolutely. What leads you to believe that the reasonable arguments aren't being heard? If one were to start a thread giving an idea and no one responds while vigorous discussion is happening in other threads, that would certainly be visible evidence of that

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Robert Kern
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 20:50, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 18:43, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: Here's the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Robert Kern
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 21:05, Matthew Brett matthew.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is that a real question? Absolutely. What leads you to believe that the reasonable arguments aren't being heard? If one were to start a thread giving an idea and no one responds while vigorous discussion is

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Darren Dale
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 20:50, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 18:43, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Robert Kern
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 21:23, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 20:50, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Robert Kern
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 21:27, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 21:23, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon,

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Charles R Harris
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 21:23, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Darren Dale
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 21:23, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Charles R Harris
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Robert Kern

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-08 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, Majorities don't make numpy development decisions normally. Never have. Not of the mailing list membership nor of the steering committee. Implementors do. When implementors disagree strongly and do not reach a consensus, then we fall back to majorities. But as I said before, majority

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-07 Thread Darren Dale
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Travis Oliphant oliph...@enthought.com wrote: I will just work on trunk and assume that the next release will be ABI incompatible.   At this point I would rather call the next version 1.5 than 2.0, though.  When the date-time work is completed, then we could

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-07 Thread Charles R Harris
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Darren Dale dsdal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Travis Oliphant oliph...@enthought.com wrote: I will just work on trunk and assume that the next release will be ABI incompatible. At this point I would rather call the next version 1.5

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-07 Thread Jarrod Millman
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Travis Oliphant oliph...@enthought.com wrote: I will just work on trunk and assume that the next release will be ABI incompatible.   At this point I would rather call the next version 1.5 than 2.0, though.  When the date-time work is completed, then we could

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-07 Thread David Cournapeau
Jarrod Millman wrote: Just to be clear, I would prefer to see the ABI-breaking release be called 2.0. I don't see why we have to get the release out in three weeks, though. I think it would be better to use this opportunity to take some time to make sure we get it right. As a compromise,

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

2010-02-07 Thread Darren Dale
I'm breaking my promise, after people wrote me offlist encouraging me to keep pushing my point of view. On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:23 PM, David Cournapeau da...@silveregg.co.jp wrote: Jarrod Millman wrote:  Just to be clear, I would prefer to see the ABI-breaking release be called 2.0.  I don't

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