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

Francesc Alted faltet at pytables.org
Mon Feb 15 05:17:05 EST 2010


A Sunday 14 February 2010 13:40:17 Stéfan van der Walt escrigué:
> On 14 February 2010 01:23, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think that there should be absolutely no change whatsoever, for two
> > reasons: - the release is in a few weeks, it is too late to change much.
> > The whole datetime issue happened because the change came too late, I
> > would hope that we avoid the same mistake.
> 
> I agree with David; we should not rush to include any new, untested
> features now.  That is what 2.1 is for.

+1

As Travis pointed out, NumPy 2.0 should mostly be a release to contain all the 
ABI changes we think we will need until NumPy 3.0 (hope that David and the 
other core developers can figure out a good way to do this).

> To quote an old war poster, let's "keep calm and carry on."

Exactly :-)

-- 
Francesc Alted



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