[Numpy-discussion] ANN: NumPy 1.6.2 release candidate 1

Charles R Harris charlesr.harris at gmail.com
Wed May 9 12:49:38 EDT 2012


On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Ralf Gommers
> <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm pleased to announce the availability of the first release candidate
> of
> > NumPy 1.6.2.  This is a maintenance release. Due to the delay of the
> NumPy
> > 1.7.0, this release contains far more fixes than a regular NumPy bugfix
> > release.  It also includes a number of documentation and build
> improvements.
> >
> > Sources and binary installers can be found at
> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/1.6.2rc1/
> >
> > Please test this release and report any issues on the numpy-discussion
> > mailing list.
>
> Mh, I can't exactly understand this:
>
> $ diff -urNad numpy-1.6.1 numpy-1.6.2rc | diffstat | tail -1
>  2718 files changed, 390859 deletions(-)
>
> does it mean that the only thing the RC has done is to remove a lot of
> stuff? that's weird because the build process went all just fine and
> unit tests are passing ... /me confused?
>
>
No, only a few files were changed. Since there are about 1000 files in
numpy I suspect you are also counting everything in the build and
documentation build directories. If you built inplace, you are also going
to pick up *.pyc files and such.

Chuck
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