[Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

[Christopher Barker]

David Cournapeau wrote:
> Just so that there is no confusion: it is only about removing it for 
> 1.4.x, not about removing datetime altogether. It seems that datetime in 
> 1.4.x has few users,

Of course it has few users -- it's brand new!

> whereas breaking ABI is a nuisance for many more 
> people. In particular, people who update NumPy 1.4.0 cannot use scipy or 
> matplotlib unless they build it by themselves as well - we are talking 
> about thousand of people at least assuming sourceforge numbers are accurate.

Is it out of the question to make new builds of those?

Anyway, ABI breakage will happen once in a while -- is it worse to do it 
now than any other time?

Do people that don't want (or can't) upgrade scipy/mpl/whatever HAVE to 
upgrade numpy?

For my part - I tried 1.4, found it broke a few things, so I downgraded. 
Then a bit later, we decided we needed to build a few things anyway, so 
have now gone to 1.4 and rebuilt scipy, and out own Cython extensions.

changing it back means that I'd have to do that again -- not a huge 
deal, but that's what I meant by "the cat's out of the bag"

-Chris

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