[Numpy-discussion] ANN: NumPy 1.7.0b1 release

[Christoph Gohlke]

On 8/22/2012 6:26 AM, Charles R Harris wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Christoph Gohlke <cgohlke at uci.edu
> <mailto:cgohlke at uci.edu>> wrote:
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>     On 8/21/2012 9:24 AM, Ondřej Čertík wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > I'm pleased to announce the availability of the first beta release of
>     > NumPy 1.7.0b1.
>     >
>     > Sources and binary installers can be found at
>     >https://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/1.7.0b1/
>     >
>     > Please test this release and report any issues on the numpy-discussion
>     > mailing list. The following problems are known and
>     > we'll work on fixing them before the final release:
>     >
>     >http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/2187
>     >http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/2185
>     >http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/2066
>     >http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1588
>     >http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/2076
>     >http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/2101
>     >http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/2108
>     >http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/2150
>     >http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/2189
>     >
>     > I would like to thank Ralf for a lot of help with creating binaries
>     > and other help for this release.
>     >
>     > Cheers,
>     > Ondrej
>     >
>     >
>
>     Hi Ondrej,
>
>     will numpy 1.7.0 final support Python 3.3? The recent patch in the
>     master branch seems to work well.
>
>     I tested a win-amd64-py2.7\msvc9\MKL build of the numpy
>     maintenance/1.7.x branch against a number of package binaries from
>     <http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
>     <http://www.lfd.uci.edu/%7Egohlke/pythonlibs/>>.
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>     The test results are at
>     <http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/tests/20120821-win-amd64-py2.7-numpy-MKL-1.7.0rc1.dev-28ffac7/
>     <http://www.lfd.uci.edu/%7Egohlke/pythonlibs/tests/20120821-win-amd64-py2.7-numpy-MKL-1.7.0rc1.dev-28ffac7/>>.
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> What version of Numpy were the test packages compiled against?

numpy-MKL-1.6.x

Christoph

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>     For comparison, the tests against numpy-MKL-1.6.2 are at
>     <http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/tests/20120821-win-amd64-py2.7/
>     <http://www.lfd.uci.edu/%7Egohlke/pythonlibs/tests/20120821-win-amd64-py2.7/>>.
>
>     Besides some numpy 1.7.x test errors due to RuntimeWarning and
>     DeprecationWarning, there are hundreds of "RuntimeWarning (numpy.dtype
>     size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility)" when loading Cython
>     extensions.
>
>     There are additional test failures in scipy, statsmodels, bottleneck,
>     skimage, vigra, and mahotas. I did not check in detail or with existing
>     tickets (http://projects.scipy.org/ is timing out or responding with
>     HTTP 500 status).
>
>     Other packages test OK against numpy 1.7.x, e.g. PIL, PyGame,
>     matplotlib, Pandas, tables, and numexpr.
>
>
> Chuck
>