[Numpy-discussion] C-API change for 1.2

[David Cournapeau]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:59 PM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Charles R Harris
> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm slowly coming to the conviction that there should be no C-ABI changes in
>> 1.2.
>
> It does not make sense to revert those changes anymore,

Actually, I did not follow the discussion when this change happened,
but it does not look difficult to change the code such as we do not
break the ABI. Instead of replacing the flag, we can put it at the
end, and deprecate (but not remove) the old one.

Would anyone be strongly against that ?