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

Sandro Tosi matrixhasu at gmail.com
Wed May 9 13:02:27 EDT 2012


On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

gaah sorry for the noise, there was some devils playing tricks on me..
now I got a more sane

608 files changed, 8121 insertions(+), 4300 deletions(-)

Cheers,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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