[Numpy-discussion] 1.7 blockers

[Ralf Gommers]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Charles R Harris <
charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> There several problems with numpy master that need to be fixed before a
> release can be considered.
>
>    1. Datetime on windows with mingw.
>
> Opened http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/2108 for the last datetime
failures.

>
>    1. Bus error on SPARC, ticket #2076.
>    2. NA and real/complex views of complex arrays.
>
> Number 1 has been proved to be particularly difficult, any help or
> suggestions for that would be much appreciated. The current work has been
> going in pull request 214 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/214>.
>
> This isn't to say that there aren't a ton of other things that need fixing
> or that we can skip out on the current stack of pull requests, but I think
> it is impossible to consider a release while those three problems are
> outstanding.
>

We've closed a number of open issues and merged some PRs, but haven't made
much progress on the issues above. Especially for the NA issues I'm not
sure what's going on. Is anyone working on this at the moment? If so, can
he/she give an update of things to change/fix and an estimate of how long
that will take?

Thanks,
Ralf
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