[Numpy-discussion] Relaxed stride checking fixup

[Charles R Harris]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 4:21 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 6:28 AM, Charles R Harris <
> charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Currently numpy master has a bogus stride that will cause an error when
>> downstream projects misuse it. That is done in order to help smoke out
>> errors. Previously that bogus stride has been fixed up for releases, but
>> that requires a special patch to be applied after each version branch is
>> made. At this point I'd like to pick one or the other option and make the
>> development and release branches the same in this regard. The question is:
>> which option to choose? Keeping the fixup in master will remove some code
>> and keep things simple, while not fixing up the release will possibly lead
>> to more folks finding errors. At this point in time I am favoring applying
>> the fixup in master.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>
> If we have to pick then keeping the fixup sounds reasonable. Would there
> be value in making the behavior configurable at compile time? If there are
> more such things and they'd be behind a __NUMPY_DEBUG__ switch, then people
> may want to test that in their own CI.
>

Interesting thought. I wonder what else might be a good candidate for such
a switch?

Chuck
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