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

Sandro Tosi matrixhasu at gmail.com
Wed May 9 12:53:25 EDT 2012


On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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.

sorry i didn't say that: they are the tarballs just extracted. i'd
have to recheck again downloading from SF


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