Travis Oliphant wrote: > I think we just signal the breakage in 1.4.1 and move forward. The > datetime is useful as a place-holder for data. Math on date-time arrays > just doesn't work yet. I don't think removing it is the right > approach. It would be better to spend the time on fleshing out the > ufuncs and conversion functions for date-time support.
Just so that there is no confusion: it is only about removing it for 1.4.x, not about removing datetime altogether. It seems that datetime in 1.4.x has few users, whereas breaking ABI is a nuisance for many more people. In particular, people who update NumPy 1.4.0 cannot use scipy or matplotlib unless they build it by themselves as well - we are talking about thousand of people at least assuming sourceforge numbers are accurate. More fundamentally though, what is your opinion about ABI ? Am I right to understand you don't consider is as significant ? David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion