On Oct 9, 2008, at 2:57 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: > Robert Bradshaw wrote: >> I'd like to release this soon. I've changed declare so it can work as >> below (i.e. declare(var=type, ..)). For now there's no "cpdef/ >> cdefclass/earlybind/??" decorator, we'll hammer that one out later. >> Any other comments before we commit to it? > > Hmm.. Well done! :-) > > Comments about release schedule though: > > For NumPy complex numbers are now in place which was the big lacking > feature
Yeah, I saw some commits that direction but haven't yet tried it out. This should be very nice. > (of course, that makes native complex float support the next big > lacking feature for numerical use). Yep. > Structs/record arrays are incredibly > near the surface (less than a day, easily), OTOH I'm very pressed on > time at the moment, so I suppose they should not block a release. If you get them done, cool, otherwise we'll continue without them for now. > There definitely needs to be betas this time around too, the > result_code > refactoring is more dangerous than anything we did in summer. (In fact > the issue Lisandro just posted may be related to this...) Yep. Any suggestions other than just reporting to the mailing list and compiling sage/lxml/etc? > BTW, are we now anywhere near keeping a feature sync with Pyrex? I believe the only feature we are lacking is multiple file compilation, but I could be wrong. There are also possibly some bug fixes in the latest that we haven't caught yet. > I'm wondering if we could perhaps think again about the versioning > scheme -- > the version number is getting very long to refer to, and the link to > Pyrex seems less important than it used to. (Obviously it needs to not > mess with packaging systems, but both 0.10 and 0.9.9 could work, > rather > than 0.9.8.2). Yes, this is worth revisiting. - Robert _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
