On Feb 11, 2010, at 5:57 PM, David Cournapeau wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Charles R Harris > <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> 2010/2/11 Stéfan van der Walt <ste...@sun.ac.za> >>> >>> On 11 February 2010 15:38, Darren Dale <dsdal...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> 2010/2/11 Stéfan van der Walt <ste...@sun.ac.za>: >>>>> On 11 February 2010 09:52, Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> Simple, eh. The version should be 2.0. >>>>> >>>>> I'm going with the element of least surprise: no one will be surprised >>>>> when 1.5 is released with ABI changes >>>> >>>> I'll buy you a doughnut if that turns out to be correct. >>> >>> Now I wish I said "few people" instead :) >>> >>> As I read the discussion, I realised that not many people (including >>> developers) were aware of the versioning policy. Since we did not >>> follow the policy in the past, there is no precedent (hence, little >>> surprise). >>> >> >> How do precedents get established? >> >>> >>> If we make enough noise (release notes, notification on sourceforge, >>> post on list, message in installer, etc.) upon releasing "1.5", that >>> should be ample warning, and it may also be a good trial run for numpy >>> 2.0. >>> >> >> The major version number is unrelated to features, it is an ABI marker, not >> a feature marker. If one so much as breathes on the ABI, the major version >> number needs to change. > > Actually, it is. The whole issue is caused by willing to change ABI > without changing major feature, which is seldom done. ABI is generally > only changed because you have no choice, not because it is more > convenient.
Jus to make sure I understand: * 2.0 will be w/ datetime support and corresponds to the current trunk * 1.5 will be w/o datetime support ? A few weeks back, I committed some changes to the trunk (some numpy.ma stuffs) that I haven't backported to what was 1.4. What should I do with them ? _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
