[Numpy-discussion] Introduction to Scott, Jason, and (possibly) others from Enthought

[Stéfan van der Walt]

On 25 May 2010 15:06, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
> Naming it 3.0 or 2.1 does not matter much - I think we should avoid
> breaking things twice. I can see a few solutions:
>  - postpone 2.0 "indefinitely", until this new work is done
>  - backport py3k changes to 1.5 (which would be API and ABI
> compatible with 1.4.1), and 2.0 would contain all the breaking
> changes.

This is a good suggestion.  Release 1.5 without ABI breakage and then
leave enough time to discuss an optimal API, refactor the C code and
include datetime functionality for 2.0.  We don't stand anything to
gain by rushing.

If I'm not mistaken, David did warn that this kind of situation may
occur the last time around :)

Cheers
Stéfan