[IPython-dev] IPython development: course adjustment required

[Fernando Perez]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 2:04 AM, Johann Cohen-Tanugi
<cohen at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
> hi there,
> I am even more a spectator than John, but I fully concur with the
> conclusions that incrementing ipy0 is the right approach. I have been
> downloading both versions of ipython in order to check where were the
> features I needed or wanted to explore, and the parallelism is certainly
> not available to any ipython user as it stands now. I somewhat
> sheepishly asked in this list a few weeks ago why there were no ipython1
> executable  to try out the corresponding features!
> You might even gain in developer's base by proceeding this way ;)

That's precisely the plan :)  As long as we're careful not to piss
people off by breaking too many things at the same time, what users
will experience will be the gradual growth of the parallel features
inside a tool they already use for everyday work.  This is something I
was blind enough to overlook for a long time.  Yes, I'm kicking
myself, you don't need to :)

> So, +1 big time on reconsidering developing ipy1 within ipy0!

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated.

Cheers,

f