[Numpy-discussion] Going toward time-based release ?

Jarrod Millman millman at berkeley.edu
Mon May 12 16:39:24 EDT 2008


On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Stéfan van der Walt <stefan at sun.ac.za> wrote:
>  I think that's a good idea.  If I recall correctly, numpy.core.ma had
>  been exposed as numpy.ma, and some code uses it.  Having an old and a
>  new version in places where previously only the old version used to be
>  won't solve the problem.  The two MaskedArray modules are (supposed to
>  be) API compatible, and we shouldn't see any breakage (Charles'
>  experience was unfortunate, but that's been sorted out now);
>  therefore, I'd expose the new masked arrays as numpy.ma and add a
>  warning to the release message, which also refers anyone with problems
>  to  numpy.oldnumeric.ma (which, btw, has a number of bugs itself,
>  which were discovered while coding the new masked arrays).

Do you think that the release notes all ready capture this:
http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/milestone/1.1.0

If not, please feel free to suggest some additional language.

Thanks,

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