[Numpy-discussion] Merging datetime branch

[Charles R Harris]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Travis Oliphant <oliphant at enthought.com>wrote:

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> On Aug 25, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Charles R Harris wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Pierre GM <pgmdevlist at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Aug 25, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Skipper Seabold wrote:
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>> > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Charles R
>> > Harris<charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Hi Travis,
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>> >> The new parse_datetime.c file contains a lot of c++ style comments
>> >> that
>> >> should be fixed. Also, the new test for mirr is failing on all the
>> >> buildbots.
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>> Comments sent to Marty who wrote the parse_datetime.c as part of his
>> GSoC: Marty, I guess you have a bit of cleaning up to do.
>> (As a snarky side note, Marty posted on the list a few weeks ago
>> asking just for this kind of comments... But all is well and better
>> late than never.)
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> My bad, then, I missed it. So let me add
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> 1) Because the default compilation is to include all the files in a master
> file, the local defines should be undef'ed at the end to avoid namespace
> pollution.
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> 2) Never do this:
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>  if (bug) return -1;
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> or this
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> if (bug) {blah; blah;}
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> do it this way
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> if (bug) {
>     return -1;
> }
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> The last is more for Travis in the most recent commit ;)
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> Thanks for the reminders and the review.
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> I've been busy on the datetime branch (trying to merge Marty's code which
> is where all the C++ comments come from).  I've changed a lot of the
> stylistic differences in Marty's code (not sure if I've got them all).    I
> doubt I will have time to be pedantic, but will welcome any such changes
> from others.
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> While there are a couple of features that need to be added (coercion
> between two date-time datatypes is one big one), and a whole lot of tests
> that need to be added for the datetime support.  I think it's ready to merge
> back to the mainline trunk so it can be a part of the development toward 1.4
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> Let me know if anyone has any big changes to trunk that are going to occur
> today.
>

I don't plan on any, but there have been changes since early June...  Please
be careful to have the ifdef NPY_PY3K bits in the type object
initializations.

Thanks
Chuck
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