to, 2010-02-11 kello 16:38 -0600, Travis Oliphant kirjoitti: [clip] > Pauli, David, and Stephan, how opposed are you to numbering the next > release as NumPy 2.0 with no experimental tag or the like. If you > three could also agree. I could see my way through to supporting a > NumPy 2.0 release. I would ask for the following:
Not very opposed -- if 2.0 seems better, then let's just pick it. It's a nice color, too ;) > 1) I would like the release to come out in about 3-4 weeks > 2) I would like the release to contain all the ABI changes we think we > will need until NumPy 3.0 when something like David's ideas are > implemented which would need to be no sooner than 1 year from now. > 3) The following changes to the ABI (no promise that I might not ask > for more before the release date): > > * change the ABI indicator > * put the DATETIME dtypes back in their original place in the list > * move the *cast functions to the end of the ArrFuncs structure > * place 2-3 place-holders in that ArrFuncs structure > * fix the hasobject data-type Sounds like a good plan. > Any other simple ABI changes that should be made? None that I can think of. I'll pull out soon the extra fields added to the end of descr/ndarray structs for PEP 3118 currently in SVN, since they are actually not really needed for the implementation. Best, Pauli _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
