[Cython] remaining open issues for 0.17

[mark florisson]

On 6 August 2012 22:58, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> please correct me if I'm missing something, but besides the fused types
> default value thing, I currently see two open issues for 0.17. One is the
> 32bit problem we have in the buffer code, the other one is the "vile hack"
> that Robert added as a type inference fix. I just ran into the following
> code (while compiling Django) which currently crashes the compiler, and I
> think it's due to one of those "type inference modifies state" issues.
>
> """
> def func(**kwargs):
>     """
>     >>> sorted(func(a=3, b=4))
>     [1, 2, 3, 4]
>     """
>     return [ arg for arg in [1,2] + kwargs.values() ]
> """
>
> How should we deal with these? Personally, I consider general C code
> portability issues more annoying than code that fails to compile but that
> can be worked around by users. So, unless we can fix the default values
> and/or the type inference issues soonishly, I would concentrate on the
> 32bit issues for now and release 0.17 when we get them resolved.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Stefan
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I thought the 32 bit issue was resolved? You pushed a fix and I fixed
some tests, so it passed for me. I can run it again to check...