[Numpy-discussion] Numpy 2.0 schedule

[David]

On 01/26/2011 01:42 AM, Charles R Harris wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Just thought it was time to start discussing a release schedule for
> numpy 2.0 so we have something to aim at. I'm thinking sometime in the
> period April-June might be appropriate. There is a lot coming with the
> next release: the Enthought's numpy refactoring, Mark's float16 and
> iterator work, and support for IronPython. How do things look to the
> folks involved in those projects?

One thing which I was wondering about numpy 2.0: what's the story for 
the C-API compared to 1.x for extensions. Is it fundamentally different 
so that extensions will need to be rewritten ? I especially wonder about 
scipy and cython's codegen backend,

cheers,

David