[Numpy-discussion] Going toward time-based release ?
Jarrod Millman
millman at berkeley.edu
Mon May 12 12:52:26 EDT 2008
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The MA situation was handled slightly differently, which is
> > unfortunate. I think that it is a reasonable change to make in a
> > minor release, but we should have provided a warning first. At least,
> > we are providing the old code still. Do you think that we should
> > revisit this issue? Since we are importing the new MA from a
> > different location maybe we should move the old code back to it's
> > original location. Would it be reasonable to have:
> > from numpy import ma --> new code
> > from numpy.core import ma --> old code w/ a deprecation warning
>
> I think that might be better, yes.
I would like to hear from more people about whether they think this
would be a useful solution to the current complaints about the new MA
implementation. In particular, I would like to hear from at least the
following people please: Travis, Stefan, Pierre, and David.
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