[Cython] 0.16 release

[mark florisson]

On 15 February 2012 15:45, mark florisson <markflorisson88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 February 2012 21:33, Robert Bradshaw <robertwb at math.washington.edu> wrote:
>> 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
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>
> Sorry, my previous email with attachment bounced. Here goes.
>
> I'm getting a substantial amount of failing tests on MSVC,
> https://gist.github.com/1836766. I think most complex number tests are
> failing because they cast
> a struct of a certain type to itself like ((struct_A) my_struct_A),
> which MSVC doesn't allow.
>
> Some tests seem to fail because they can't be imported: "compiling (c)
> and running numpy_parallel: ImportError: No module named
> numpy_parallel".
>
> And then there is a huge number of permission errors: WindowsError:
> [Error 5] Access is denied:
> 'c:\\Users\\mark\\cython\\BUILD\\compile\\cpp\\libc_math.pyd' . Maybe
> something is broken in the test runner (or in my setup somehow)?

The pasted output is a little munged because it was redirected to a
log (and stdout is probably block buffering, something we could also
fix to line buffering).