[Numpy-discussion] Removing datetime support for 1.4.x series ?

[David Cournapeau]

Charles R Harris wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:03 PM, David Cournapeau 
> <david at silveregg.co.jp <mailto:david at silveregg.co.jp>> wrote:
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>     Charles R Harris wrote:
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>      > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:12 PM, David Cournapeau
>     <david at silveregg.co.jp <mailto:david at silveregg.co.jp>
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>      >     Charles R Harris wrote:
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>      >      > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:00 PM, David Cournapeau
>      >     <david at silveregg.co.jp <mailto:david at silveregg.co.jp>
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>      >      >      > scipy is relatively easy to compile, I was thinking
>     also
>      >     of h5py,
>      >      >      > pytables and pymc (b/c of pytables), none of them are
>      >     importing with
>      >      >      > numpy 1.4.0 because of the cython issue.
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>      >      >     As I said, all of them will have to be regenerated with
>      >     cython 0.12.1.
>      >      >     There is no other solution,
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>      >      > Wait, won't the structures be the same size? If they are
>     then the
>      >     cython
>      >      > check won't fail.
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>      >     Yes, but the structures are bigger (even after removing the
>     datetime
>      >     stuff, I had the cython warning when I did some tests).
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>      > That's curious. It sounds like it isn't ABI compatible yet.
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>     The Cython problem was that before 0.12.1, it failed importing whenever
>     the struct size changed. You can change struct size and keep ABI
>     compatibility (as long as nobody includes the struct in their own code),
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> Sure, but I don't recall any additions to structures apart from the 
> datetime stuff and the metadata element.

At least iterator (I needed to add some members to support the 
neighborhood iterator). There may be more changes I am not aware of, but 
a quick look at git di svn/tags/1.3.0..svn/1.4.x numpy/core/include 
suggests no other big changes,

David