[Numpy-discussion] numpy 2.0, what else to do?

Travis Oliphant oliphant at enthought.com
Sat Feb 13 14:49:29 EST 2010


This is exactly what I was worried about with calling the next release  
2.0.

This is not the time to change all the things we wish were done  
differently.

The release is scheduled for 3 weeks.

Travis


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On Feb 13, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Joe Harrington <jh at physics.ucf.edu> wrote:

> Chuck Harris writes (on numpy-discussion):
>
>> Since there has been talk of deprecating the numarray and numeric
>> compatibility parts of numpy for the upcoming 2.0 release I thought  
>> maybe we
>> could consider a few other changes. First, numpy imports a ton of  
>> stuff by
>> default and this is maintained for backward compatibility. Would  
>> this be a
>> reasonable time to change that and require explicit imports for  
>> things like
>> fft? Second, Poly1D has problems that aren't likely to get fixed, I  
>> would
>> like to both deprecate the old polynomial support and make it not be
>> imported by default.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> I'd like to suggest that 2.0 include a fully-reviewed set of
> docstrings (except for the "unimportant" ones).
>
> Really, 1.0 should not have been released without documentation, but
> it was released prematurely anyway, and we've spent much of the 1.x
> release series fixing inconsistencies and other problems, as well as
> writing the draft docs now included in the releases.  I look at 2.0
> as our "real" 1.0, as do many others.
>
> I am posting a call for a (possibly paid) Django programmer who can
> add a second review capability to the doc wiki.  That call is on
> scipy-dev, where discussion of the wiki and general documentation
> topics takes place.  If you are interested, please respond there, not
> here.  Discussion of whether to include reviewed docs in numpy 2.0
> belongs here on numpy-discussion, of course.
>
> I think the main issue with regard to docs will be time frame.  What
> is the time frame for a 2.0 release?
>
> Aside from docs and the things Chuck mentioned, I think a general
> design review would be a good idea, to root out things like any more
> lurking inconsistencies or disorganizations, such as the "median"
> problem.  I guess that's what Chuck started, but should we formalize
> it by parceling out chunks of the package to 2-3 reviewers each for
> comment?  The idea would be to root out problems, incompleteness, and
> disorganization, *not* to engage in a big rewrite that would massively
> break the API for everyone.
>
> Ideally, after 2.0 the changes would be improvements rather than
> API-breaking fixes.
>
> Thanks,
>
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