[Numpy-discussion] ANN: NumPy 1.5.0 beta 2

[Ralf Gommers]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:28 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Ralf Gommers
> <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I am pleased to announce the availability of the second beta of NumPy
> 1.5.0.
> > This will be the first NumPy release to include support for Python 3, as
> > well as for Python 2.7.
> >
> > Please try this beta and report any problems on the NumPy mailing list.
> > Especially with Python 3 testing will be very useful. On Linux and OS X
> > building from source should be straightforward, for Windows a binary
> > installer is provided. There is one important known issue on Windows
> left,
> > in fromfile and tofile (ticket 1583).
> >
> > Binaries, sources and release notes can be found at
> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/
>
> I saw that the beta was put on pypi as well. I think we should not do
> that: easy_install will always the most recent version, and this means
> trouble.
>
> OK, I will remove it again tonight.

In this case there won't be much trouble though, the only reason this is a
beta instead of an rc is because of one py3k problem - and 1.4.1 doesn't
work with that (or 2.7) anyway.

Ralf
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