On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Travis E. Oliphant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Hi everybody, > > Robert K, Chuck H, Stefan VdW, Jarrod M, David C, and I had a nice > discussion about the future directions of NumPy. We resolved some > things and would like community feedback on them if there are opinions. > > * we will be moving to time-based releases (at least 2 times a year -- > November / May) with major changes not accepted about 4 weeks before the > release. > * The releases will be numbered major.minor.bugfix > * There will be no ABI changes in minor releases > * There will be no API changes in bugfix releases > * Any API changes in minor releases will be done in a backward > compatible fashion (possibly with deprecations). > * Thus 1.2 will not break ABI compatibility but will add new API features. > * We will push the generalized ufuncs off to 1.3 > * NumPy 2.0 will be a library and will not automagically import numpy.fft > * We will suggest that other libraries use from numpy import fft > instead of import numpy as np; np.fft > * We will apply most of Andrew Dalke's speed up patches but will keep > ctypeslib import > * We will remove automatic import of numpy.doc from trunk > * NumPy 1.2 will come out shortly after the conference (rc1 on Sunday). > * SciPy 0.7b1 will come out after the sprints. > > If there is anything else I missed from those who were there, please let > us all know. > There is an excellent discussion of ABI/API issues here<http://netevil.org/blog/2006/dec/coding-for-coders-api-and-abi-considerations-in-an-evolving-code-base>. I think we have pretty much come around to the authors point of view, but it is useful to have things clearly written up. > > By the way, as promised, the NumPy book is now available for download > and the source to the book is checked in to the numpy SVN tree: > > http://svn.scipy.org/svn/numpy/trunk/numpy/doc/numpybook > Thanks for that. Chuck
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