[Numpy-discussion] numpy 2.0, what else to do?

[Xavier Gnata]

IMHO 2.0 should support python3.
That would be a major step and a good reason to call it 2.0.

Xavier

> This is exactly what I was worried about with calling the next release  
> 2.0.
>
> This is not the time to change all the things we wish were done  
> differently.
>
> The release is scheduled for 3 weeks.
>
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> On Feb 13, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Joe Harrington <jh at physics.ucf.edu> wrote:
>
>   
>> Chuck Harris writes (on numpy-discussion):
>>
>>     
>>> Since there has been talk of deprecating the numarray and numeric
>>> compatibility parts of numpy for the upcoming 2.0 release I thought  
>>> maybe we
>>> could consider a few other changes. First, numpy imports a ton of  
>>> stuff by
>>> default and this is maintained for backward compatibility. Would  
>>> this be a
>>> reasonable time to change that and require explicit imports for  
>>> things like
>>> fft? Second, Poly1D has problems that aren't likely to get fixed, I  
>>> would
>>> like to both deprecate the old polynomial support and make it not be
>>> imported by default.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>       
>> I'd like to suggest that 2.0 include a fully-reviewed set of
>> docstrings (except for the "unimportant" ones).
>>
>> Really, 1.0 should not have been released without documentation, but
>> it was released prematurely anyway, and we've spent much of the 1.x
>> release series fixing inconsistencies and other problems, as well as
>> writing the draft docs now included in the releases.  I look at 2.0
>> as our "real" 1.0, as do many others.
>>
>> I am posting a call for a (possibly paid) Django programmer who can
>> add a second review capability to the doc wiki.  That call is on
>> scipy-dev, where discussion of the wiki and general documentation
>> topics takes place.  If you are interested, please respond there, not
>> here.  Discussion of whether to include reviewed docs in numpy 2.0
>> belongs here on numpy-discussion, of course.
>>
>> I think the main issue with regard to docs will be time frame.  What
>> is the time frame for a 2.0 release?
>>
>> Aside from docs and the things Chuck mentioned, I think a general
>> design review would be a good idea, to root out things like any more
>> lurking inconsistencies or disorganizations, such as the "median"
>> problem.  I guess that's what Chuck started, but should we formalize
>> it by parceling out chunks of the package to 2-3 reviewers each for
>> comment?  The idea would be to root out problems, incompleteness, and
>> disorganization, *not* to engage in a big rewrite that would massively
>> break the API for everyone.
>>
>> Ideally, after 2.0 the changes would be improvements rather than
>> API-breaking fixes.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --jh--
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