[Numpy-discussion] Numpy 1.6 schedule (was: Numpy 2.0 schedule)

[Charles R Harris]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Francesc Alted <faltet at pytables.org> wrote:

> A Monday 28 February 2011 16:31:59 Ralf Gommers escrigué:
> > >> Proposed schedule:
> > >> March 15: beta 1
> > >> March 28: rc 1
> > >> April 17: rc 2 (if needed)
> > >> April 24: final release
> > >>
> > >> Let me know what you think. Bonus points for volunteering to fix
> > >> some of those tickets:)
>
> While doing tests on the new NumPy 1.6 code, I'm seeing that the
> compiled code with NumPy 1.5 no longer works with 1.6.  Here it is the
> problem:
>
> $ PYTHONPATH=. python tables/tests/test_all.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "tables/tests/test_all.py", line 13, in <module>
>    import tables
>  File "/home/faltet/PyTables/pytables/trunk/tables/__init__.py", line
> 63, in <module>
>    from tables.utilsExtension import getPyTablesVersion, getHDF5Version
>  File "definitions.pxd", line 138, in init tables.utilsExtension
> (tables/utilsExtension.c:9238)
> ValueError: numpy.dtype has the wrong size, try recompiling
>
> I've seen the same issue when NumPy jumped from 1.3.x to 1.4.1, forcing
> all the packages depending on NumPy to be recompiled to work with 1.4.1
> and higher.  Do we really want to repeat the experience with 1.5.x -->
> 1.6.x?
>
>
IIRC, that was a cython problem. I thought they fixed that to issue a
warning instead.

Chuck
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