Hi Pearu 2008/5/20 Pearu Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > CC: numpy-discussion because of other reactions on the subject. > > On Tue, May 20, 2008 1:26 am, Robert Kern wrote: >> Is this an important bugfix? If not, can you hold off until 1.1.0 is >> released? > > The patch fixes a long existing and unreported bug in f2py - I think > the bug was introduced when Python defined min and max functions. > I learned about the bug when reading a manuscript about f2py. Such bugs > should not end up in a paper demonstrating f2py inability to process > certain > features as it would have not been designed to do so. So, I'd consider > the bugfix important. > > On the other hand, the patch does not affect numpy users who do not > use f2py, in any way. So, it is not important for numpy users, in general.
Many f2py users currently get their version via NumPy, I assume. > Hmm, I also thought that the trunk is open for development, even though > r5198 is only fixing a bug (and I do not plan to develop f2py in numpy > further, just fix bugs and maintain it). If the release process > is going to take for weeks and is locking the trunk, may be the > release candidates should live in a separate branch? If the patch a) Fixes an important bug and b) has unit tests to ensure it does what it is supposed to then I'd be +1 for applying. It looks like there are some tests included; to which degree do they cover the bugfix, and do we have tests to make sure that f2py still functions correctly? I'd like to make sure I understood Jarrod's message from earlier this week: 1) Release candidate branch is tagged -- development continues on trunk 2) Release candidate is tested 3) Bug-fixes are back-ported to the release candidate as necessary 4) Release is made Another version I've seen starts with: 1) Release candidate branch is tagged -- no one touches trunk except for bug-fixes Which is it? I want to know where the docstring changes should go. Regards Stéfan _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
