[Cython] any more fixes for 0.19.1 ?

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Fri May 3 15:49:19 CEST 2013


Stefan Behnel, 03.05.2013 09:29:
> since there's an unpleasant regression in 0.19, I'd like to release 0.19.1
> soon. If you have any more fixes that should go in, you may want to apply
> them now or at least speak up to delay the release.
> 
> I'm aware of ticket 810, but it doesn't seem like a regression and I don't
> currently see an obvious simple way to reproduce it. It looks like a
> classical "last reference dies while still in use" kind of problem to me.
> Maybe even a bug in Sage rather than Cython that just accidentally worked
> in older releases, although I'm not saying that there is nothing Cython
> could do about it.
> 
> http://trac.cython.org/cython_trac/ticket/810
> 
> Ticket 814 (compiler crash during C++ code analysis) would also be worth
> closing before a release as it might be an easy fix, even though it's not a
> regression (crashes for me also in 0.18).
> 
> http://trac.cython.org/cython_trac/ticket/814
> 
> I also think that Ticket 775 ("memoryview" name leaks into module
> namespace) should eventually be fixed as it's annoying and unexpected,
> although not necessarily right in this release (it's been like this forever).
> 
> http://trac.cython.org/cython_trac/ticket/775
> 
> Anything else?

There's also the C++ default arguments bug:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.cython.user/1379

I think we should at least emit a warning for now.

Stefan



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