On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Pauli Virtanen <pav@iki.fi> wrote:

Technically, the move could be done like this, so that merge tracking
still works:

--------refactor--------------- new-refactor
/ /
/--------libndarray----------x
/ \
start---------------------- master----- new-master

Switching to use libndarray is a big ABI+API change, right? If there's an idea to release an ABI-compatible 1.6, wouldn't this end up being more difficult? Maybe I'm misunderstanding this idea.

I looked a little bit at the 1.4.0 ABI issue, and if the only blocking problem was the cast[] array in ArrFuncs, I think that can be worked around without too much difficulty. Would people want an ABI-compatible 1.6 release adding date-time and float16?

-Mark