[Numpy-discussion] status for 1.6.0

[Ralf Gommers]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Christoph Gohlke <cgohlke at uci.edu> wrote:
>
>
> On 4/20/2011 1:55 PM, Ralf Gommers wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:36 AM, Christoph Gohlke<cgohlke at uci.edu>  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/17/2011 8:55 AM, Ralf Gommers wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> The list of open issues for 1.6.0 is down to a handful:
>>>>
>>>> - f2py segfault on Ubuntu reported by David (David, did you get any
>>>> further with this?)
>>>> - #1801: test_noncentral_f failure on win64
>>>> - #1798: type promotion regression (needs review,
>>>> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/73)
>>>> - API docs for new parameters to ufuncs (full list: 'casting', 'out',
>>>> 'order', 'subok', 'dtype'),
>>>> - API docs, some docstrings and update of NEP for datetime
>>>>
>>>> I'm planning to release the first release candidate next weekend if
>>>> these are solved.  As far as I know no one is working on the doc
>>>> issues right now. It would be great if someone could step up and do
>>>> this.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ralf
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Ralf,
>>>
>>> I submitted a patch for issue #1801. All tests now pass on win-amd64-py3.2
>>> with numpy 1.6.x from git.
>>
>> Great, thanks.
>>
>>> Would it be possible to get the attached patch for scipy ticket #678
>>> <http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/ticket/678>  into numpy 1.6? The
>>> fix/workaround for the scipy ODR failures is to change the ifort
>>> optimization flag from /O3 to /O1.
>>
>> Several other people already ran into this, so it would probably still
>> good to change this for 1.6.0. This change is part of a proposed
>> patch: http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1378. Do any of the
>> other changes there look relevant too?
>>
>> Ralf
>
> The changes for the Intel Visual Fortran Compiler looks OK. '/Qip' is
> the default option, and '/Qipo','/Qipo_obj' have already been removed
> some time ago.
>
> I have not used older Intel Fortran compilers but the '-xHOST' switch
> does not seem apt.

Thanks for checking, should be fixed now.

Cheers,
Ralf