[Numpy-discussion] Pull request: Split maskna support out of mainline into a branch

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:20 PM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>> > Just submitted this pull request for discussion:
>> >  https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/297
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>> > As per earlier discussion on the list, this PR attempts to remove
>> > exactly and only the maskna-related code from numpy mainline:
>> >  http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2012-May/062417.html
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>> > The suggestion is that we merge this to master for the 1.7 release,
>> > and immediately "git revert" it on a branch so that it can be modified
>> > further without blocking the release.
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>> > The first patch does the actual maskna removal; the second and third
>> > rearrange things so that PyArray_ReduceWrapper does not end up in the
>> > public API, for reasons described therein.
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>> > All tests pass with Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2 on 64-bit
>> > Ubuntu. The docs also appear to build. Before I re-based this I also
>> > tested against Scipy, matplotlib, and pandas, and all were fine.
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>> While it's tempting to think that the lack of response to this
>> email/PR indicates that everyone now agrees with me about how to
>> proceed with the NA work, I'm for some reason unconvinced...
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>> Any objections to merging this?
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> No objection, but could you wait for this WE ? I am in the middle of setting
> up a buildbot for windows for numpy (for both mingw and MSVC compilers), and
> that would be a good way to test it.

Sounds like we have consensus and the patch is good to go, so let me
know when you're ready...