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

[Numpy-discussion] Building Windows binaries on OS X

2010-02-08 Thread Ralf Gommers
Hi David and all, I have a few questions on setting up the build environment on OS X for Windows binaries. I have Wine installed with Python 2.5 and 2.6, MakeNsis and MinGW. The first question is what is meant in the Paver script by cpuid plugin. Wine seems to know what to do with a cpuid

Re: [Numpy-discussion] scipy-tickets restarted emailing on jan17 - how about numpy-tickets ?

2010-02-08 Thread Sebastian Haase
Hi, I solved the problem: GMail apparently filtered all numpy-ticket and numpy-svn mails into spam. In case someone benefits from thins info. -Sebastian On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Ryan May rma...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Sebastian Haase seb.ha...@gmail.com

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Building Windows binaries on OS X

2010-02-08 Thread josef . pktd
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Ralf Gommers ralf.gomm...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi David and all, I have a few questions on setting up the build environment on OS X for Windows binaries. I have Wine installed with Python 2.5 and 2.6, MakeNsis and MinGW. The first question is what is meant in

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Compact way of performing array math with specified result type?

2010-02-08 Thread Sebastian Haase
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:04 PM, Travis Oliphant oliphant.tra...@ieee.org wrote: Russell E. Owen wrote: I often find myself doing simple math on sequences of numbers (which might or might not be numpy arrays) where I want the result (and thus the inputs) coerced to a particular data type.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Building Windows binaries on OS X

2010-02-08 Thread Ralf Gommers
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:25 PM, josef.p...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Ralf Gommers ralf.gomm...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi David and all, I have a few questions on setting up the build environment on OS X for Windows binaries. I have Wine installed with Python 2.5

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Building Windows binaries on OS X

2010-02-08 Thread josef . pktd
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Ralf Gommers ralf.gomm...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:25 PM, josef.p...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Ralf Gommers ralf.gomm...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi David and all, I have a few questions on setting up the build

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Building Windows binaries on OS X

2010-02-08 Thread Ralf Gommers
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:06 PM, josef.p...@gmail.com wrote: Currently scipy binaries are build with MingW 3.4.5, as far as I know, which includes g77. The latest release of MingW uses gfortran, gcc 4.4.0 You mean gcc 3.4.5, and yes that's what I've got. MinGW itself is at version

[Numpy-discussion] Python 2.6 and numpy 1.3.0/1.4.0 from an extension

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Notebaert
I have made an extension that also uses numpy. I developed with Python 2.6 and numpy 1.4.0 This works all fine. The problem is that users that use this extension get crahes from the moment they use the extension and this because of numpy. It crashes when numpy is initialised. This because those

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Python 2.6 and numpy 1.3.0/1.4.0 from an extension

2010-02-08 Thread Charles R Harris
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Peter Notebaert p...@telenet.be wrote: I have made an extension that also uses numpy. I developed with Python 2.6 and numpy 1.4.0 This works all fine. The problem is that users that use this extension get crahes from the moment they use the extension and

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Python 2.6 and numpy 1.3.0/1.4.0 from an extension

2010-02-08 Thread Charles R Harris
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Peter Notebaert p...@telenet.be wrote: I have made an extension that also uses numpy. I developed with Python 2.6 and numpy 1.4.0 This works all fine. The problem is that

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Python 2.6 and numpy 1.3.0/1.4.0 from an extension

2010-02-08 Thread Alan G Isaac
I see that NumPy 1.4.0 is still the download offered on SourceForge. Did I misunderstand that a decision had been made to withdraw it, at least until the ongoing discussion about ABI breakage is resolved? (Btw, as a user, I'm hoping Jarrod's sensible proposal prevails in that discussion. That

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Python 2.6 and numpy 1.3.0/1.4.0 from an extension

2010-02-08 Thread Jarrod Millman
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Alan G Isaac ais...@american.edu wrote: I see that NumPy 1.4.0 is still the download offered on SourceForge.  Did I misunderstand that a decision had been made to withdraw it, at least until the ongoing discussion about ABI breakage is resolved? I went ahead

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

[Numpy-discussion] np.expand_dims is addaxis

2010-02-08 Thread josef . pktd
np.expand_dims has a name that I never remember and it's difficult to search for in the help. usage: it adds an axis e.g. after a reduce operation Please ignore, this is a message for Mr. Google Josef ___ NumPy-Discussion mailing list

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