[Cython] 0.16 release

[Robert Bradshaw]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:09 PM, mark florisson
<markflorisson88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 February 2012 17:19, Robert Bradshaw <robertwb at math.washington.edu> wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:49 AM, mark florisson
>> <markflorisson88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 14 February 2012 07:07, Robert Bradshaw <robertwb at math.washington.edu> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Vitja Makarov <vitja.makarov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 2012/2/12 Vitja Makarov <vitja.makarov at gmail.com>:
>>>>>> 2012/2/11 Robert Bradshaw <robertwb at math.washington.edu>:
>>>>>>> All of Sage passes except for one test:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> sage -t  devel/sage/sage/misc/sageinspect.py
>>>>>>> **********************************************************************
>>>>>>> File "/levi/scratch/robertwb/hudson/sage-4.8/devel/sage-main/sage/misc/sageinspect.py",
>>>>>>> line 970:
>>>>>>>    sage: sage_getargspec(bernstein_polynomial_factory_ratlist.coeffs_bitsize)
>>>>>>> Expected:
>>>>>>>    ArgSpec(args=['self'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=None)
>>>>>>> Got:
>>>>>>>    ArgSpec(args=['self'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=())
>>>>>>> **********************************************************************
>>>>>>> File "/levi/scratch/robertwb/hudson/sage-4.8/devel/sage-main/sage/misc/sageinspect.py",
>>>>>>> line 973:
>>>>>>>    sage: sage_getargspec(BooleanMonomialMonoid.gen)
>>>>>>> Expected:
>>>>>>>    ArgSpec(args=['self', 'i'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=(0,))
>>>>>>> Got:
>>>>>>>    ArgSpec(args=['self', 'i'], varargs=None, keywords=None, defaults=())
>>>>>>> **********************************************************************
>>>>>>> 1 items had failures:
>>>>>>>   2 of  31 in __main__.example_21
>>>>>>> ***Test Failed*** 2 failures.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any ideas why this would have changed?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> CyFunction now provides its own code object. So inspect.getargs() is
>>>>>> called instead of
>>>>>> inspect.ArgSpec(*_sage_getargspec_cython(sage_getsource(obj))). It
>>>>>> seems like func.func_defaults should be implemented.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I've created a pull request:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/cython/cython/pull/88
>>>>
>>>> Thanks! The only other thing I can think of was a question of using
>>>> caching to mitigate the longer compile times, but I can't remember if
>>>> this was resolved.
>>>
>>> The compiler has like 2 or 3 seconds of constant overhead if you use
>>> memoryviews.
>>
>> That'd be nice to cut down, but certainly not a blocker.
>>
>>>> As I'm going to be MIA any day now, someone else should take up the
>>>> banner to push this long awaited release.
>>>
>>> "Missing in action"? Are you planning to desert? :) I can't find any
>>> relevant abbreviation, but I think I know what it means,
>>> congratulations in advance.
>>
>> Twin boys coming any day now!
>
> And the Cython team just keeps on growing!

:)

>>> Stefan, you have been involved the longest, would you feel up to the
>>> task? You probably have the best understanding and experience with any
>>> issues (no pressure :). Otherwise I could have a try...
>>
>> It's pretty easy. Once the defaults change is in it's probably worth
>> cutting a beta or release candidate to email to dev/users, and if
>> there's no blocking feedback you go ahead and push it out (basically
>> writing up the release notes on the wiki, cleaning up trac, tagging
>> the repository, making sure everything we care about on hudson is
>> still passing, uploading to pypi and the website (the sdist tarball),
>> emailing our lists and python-announce, re-building and updating the
>> pointer to the documentation, ...) If it goes on for a while it's
>> worth making/using a release branch on github.
>
> Thanks for the summary, I'm sure I would have missed one or two :) Ok,
> I'll volunteer then. Maybe I can create a beta somewhere next week and
> then we can see the community tear it apart.

Thanks!

- Robert